CZUR ET16 Plus Book Scanner, Professional Document Scanner with 16MP, Capture Max A3 Size, 180+ Languages OCR, Convert to PDF/Searchable PDF/Word/Tiff/Excel, Compatible with Windows&MacOS

The CZUR ET16 Plus Book Scanner is the solution for faster scanning than the traditional flat-bed scanner. Once you become familiar with it it really can save a great deal of time with high-quality results - you choose your DPI. The LED lighting options are very flexible to cope with glare too.If you belong to an orchestra, for example, you can scan all your music into an app - for fast retrieval and page-turning (via a foot pedal!) in an appropriate app - not to mention a very compact portable solution and 'electronic' music stand. If you are a teacher/lecturer or museum librarian - this must be the answer for access for your students and researchers. It's very fast with desk and foot buttons if you have to scan, say, a book. Slower for, say different music sheets - but still fast. The clever finger gadgets hold down the pages (even though the software straightens out 'curves') and then automatically removes them from your scan!

Scanned my old book in fraction of time, good customer support aswell.

Work as a volunteer archivist at a local museum - this machine is great at copying bits of archive that, many years ago were stitched into book form.Overall great machine.

I bought the ET16+ scanner for scanning books.Tested the scanner side and it works as the box says. The results are OK and the pages are flattened to some degree although there is some skewness left. However the issue is the PDF and OCR software. The PDF software needs your files to be in a correct order otherwise the order of the book will not be achieved. There is no option in the software to order them as per your requirement. If all the pages have been scanned in the order you need them - it is OK, otherwise the order will be disturbed and you may need to manually adjust the files in Windows to get the desired result. OCR software for English cannot be initialised and you wait for forever..These are software issues and I hope and wish the cZur developers address these ASAP.

Worth every penny. Only issues are holding pages open in thick books and reflections on shiny paper, but both fealty with after a bit of practice.

I scanned two books and one had some glossy pages. I was impressed by the scanning speed as it is faster than my old flatbed scanner. But I was frustrated when the scanned results were affected by the reflection. I contacted the czur support and I've found them to be extremely responsive. They told me that if I scan glossy pages, I needed to turn off the light of the scanner and the light in the room, only leave the two additional lights. It works! And I can digitize a book with great quality in a short time with the amazing OCR function. Great product and great support! I highly recommend this book scanner because it really deserves.

I've just submitted the return for mine.This product is frustrating because it's close to being superb, but the problems with it make it slower than just using a flatbed scanner for me.It's beautifully packaged and appears sturdy and well-made, although it wasn't all that clean in the box - there were marks on the unit, which is coated on the sort of matt black plastic that shows the slightest blemish.The product's use of lasers & image processing to produce flat "scans" of the curved, open pages of books works very well and is impressive.Ancillaries like the power supply and foot pedal are fine and seem of good quality, and the cables are of reasonable lengths.Unfortunately the unit just doesn't do its job well enough.For scanning really dull, matte originals, the built-in light isn't bright enough - a fault which the makers clearly understand, as they include in the box a pair of rechargeable lamps to position alongside the unit in-use. Even with these lights all on, scans are dull, with the background dark making text hard to read. Scanning in "b&w" mode alleviates this, but also ruins photographs. If you only have to scan plain text on dull paper, though, this scanner might work for you.For scanning paper with any kind of shine to it - even a modern book, never mind a glossy magazine - the scanner is useless. The lights reflect off the paper and leave patches of glare in the photographs. You can turn off the built-in light and move the battery ones around and it will help a bit, but you'll never get rid of the glare.The real deal-breaker for me is that when scanning open pages of a book or magazine, the included software for Mac did not reliably detect the centreline. Some of the pages in the scanner's output would consist of fragments, others would consist of an entire page of the book plus half of the facing page. This is random and very hard to cure - I wasted a lot of time moving lights around, trying in fully-darkened rooms, etc.If the software were better then it would be possible to review the scans after completing a book and re-do any mis-scanned pages. Unfortunately it's fairly primitive and attempting this ends up producing PDF output with the pages out-of-order.With patience, all this can be worked around - but it consumes so much time that it would be quicker, not to mention much cheaper and higher-quality - to use a flatbed type book scanner instead.