Digitize your books, magazines, bound texts, and more with the Plustek OpticBook 3800L Scanner for High-Quality Scanningfrom Plustek. An affordable solution for all book readers, librarians, students, teachers, professors, publicists, law officers, or anyone who needs to turn their book collections, magazines and other bound materials into digital files, the OpticBook 3800L has a host of features to quickly and easily scan a wide variety of documents. Featuring a scan speed of 7 seconds per page, the scanner includes ABBYY FineReader Sprint, a one-click OCR and conversion utility that quickly turns your paper documents into various electronic formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and searchable PDF. This powerful software accurately reads documents in up to 183 languages while preserving the original document's layout and formatting. In addition to ABBYY, the unit also comes with BookPavilion. This software makes book scanning easy and efficient. Designed specifically for scanning books, the time it takes to digitizing a complete book or a few chapters is minimized thanks to the intuitive user interface and scanning workflow.

The scanner features a unique adjustable cover design that allows the scanner's door to be removed for extra thick books, and the automatic page rotation feature rotates scanned pages for proper orientation. With auto crop and deskew settings, pages are automatically cropped to the correct size and straightened. A LED light source provides even illumination while reducing light penetration and bleed-through, and shadow elimination technology removes book spine shadow and text distortion commonly found with scanned books.

Scans Books, Bound Items, and Magazines    Turns Documents into Searchable Files    Adjustable Cover Design    Rotates Image Automatically    Auto Crop and Deskew    Eliminates Book Spine Shadow    LED Light Source for Even Illumination    Reduces Light Penetration    Scan Speed: 7 Seconds per Page    Includes BookPavilion & ABBY FineReader

• Shadow Elimination Element eliminates the spine shadow and text distortion associated with books scanned on flatbed scanners and copy machines

• Scans a wide variety of documents including ID cards, magazines, booklets, stapled documents, and more

• Adjustable and removable cover design means the scanner can hold and scan large and very thick books

• LED light source provides even and uniform illumination while protecting sensitive materials

• Ideal for book collectors and readers who need to digitize their books, magazines, and other bound materials for archiving or reading on tablets

• Works with TIF, JPG, PDF, and Microsoft Office file formats to ensure compatibility with thousands of scanning and imaging programs

• Comes with ABBYY FineReader Sprint that makes it easy to convert scanned documents and images into Microsoft Word, Excel, and searchable PDF file formats, preserve the original document while adding the text searching function

• BookPavilion software makes book scanning easy and efficient and minimizes the time it takes to scan a complete book or a few chapters

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Does the included software work on the current version of Windows 11 Home?

A: Yes, the Plustek OpticFilm 135i Scanner will work on Windows 11.

Q: 2. Does this scanner work well for legal documents? Also, does it scan letter sized documents that are single paged? Thanks.

A: No, the Plustek OpticBook 3800L Scanner would not be a good option for scanning legal sized documents. This scanner has a scanning bed of 8.5 x 11.7" which is smaller than legal sized documents.

Q: 3. I have a Mac and used to use it in some version of nacOS. However, Plustek stopped providing Mac driver updates, and I no longer even have an older driver. This week I tried an older driver I found on the Italian Plustek site, but it didnt work.Its a great scanner. Has anyone fugured out a way to get it working on a Mac with a recent macOS? I generally use VueScan but am willing to try other options if they work.

A: Unfortunately, as of right now, there are still no official drivers available for this product for the latest version of OSX 10.13.

Q: 4. What is difference between 4800 and 3800 models?

A: As the seller points out, the 4800 is faster. Additionally, it scans closer to the edge of the glass (i.e., closer to the spine of the book) -- 2mm for the 4800 vs. 6mm for the 3800L. The scan edge was what led me to buy the 4800.

Q: 5. What is the edge size?

A: Pam, I'm not exactly sure of your question. But let me give it a try.The design of the scanner enables it to scan within 2mm from the actual book spine/binding. The scanner glass goes right to the edge of the scanner. There is no frame area on the front of the scanner. This scanner is designed to scan books up to 8.5 x 11 or A4. If you need to scan a larger book, take a look at our OpticBook A300. It will scan up to A3 sized books.Does any of this answer your question?

Q: 6. How does this scanner perform for scanning artworks like sketchbooks?

A: The Plustek OpticBook 3800L Scanner is made for scanning books but it is also very good for artwork like sketchbooks. It has a maximum resolution of 1200 dp (optical).

Q: 7. Does the Plustek 135i come with the 35mm panoramic holder? If not, where could I get one? I have film from Widelux and Roundshot cameras.

A: Plustek OpticFilm 135i Scanner BH #PLOF135I comes with Plustek 35mm Film Strip Holder and a Plustek 35mm Mounted Slides Holder BH #PL35MMMS.

Q: 8. Can this be used to scan documents instead of books?

A: Yes, the Plustek OpticBook 4800 is able to scan books as well as other types of printed material.

Q: 9. so this would be a good scanner for 12' X 12" scrapbook pages with photos ?

A: Yes this scanner would be fine for scrapbooks.

Q: 10. Is this model compatible with Windows 10 32bits and 64 bits?

A: The Plustek OpticBook 3800L Scanner is compatible with Windows 10 32 and 64 bit.