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Plustek OpticBook 3800L Scanner

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Plustek OpticBook 3800L Scanner
Key Features
  • Scans Books, Bound Items, and Magazines
  • Turns Documents into Searchable Files
  • Adjustable Cover Design
  • Rotates Image Automatically
Digitize your books, magazines, bound texts, and more with the OpticBook 3800L Scanner from 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.
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Plustek 3800L Overview

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Digitize your books, magazines, bound texts, and more with the OpticBook 3800L Scanner from 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.

  • 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
UPC: 783064356992

Plustek 3800L Specs

Key Specs
Scanner Type
Flatbed Scanner
Scanner Maximum Resolution
1200 dpi (Optical)
Scanner Color Depth
48-Bit (Internal)
24-Bit (External)
Power Source
AC Power (Cable Built-In/Included)
Scanner
Type
Flatbed Scanner
Maximum Resolution
1200 dpi (Optical)
Scan Modes
Color, Grayscale, Monochrome
Color Depth
48-Bit (Internal)
24-Bit (External)
Grayscale Depth
16-Bit (Internal)
8-Bit (External)
Light Source
LED
Image Sensor
1x Charge-Coupled Device (CCD)
Duplex Scanning
No
Single Pass Duplex
No
Automatic Image Corrections
Yes
Scanner Media Handling
Scan Sizes
Flatbed
Maximum: 8.5 x 11.7" / 21.6 x 29.7 cm
Multi-Feed Detection
No
Daily Duty Cycle
2500 Scans
Connectivity
Data I/O
1x USB-B 2.0 Input
Scanner Drivers
TWAIN
OS Compatibility
Windows / macOS
General
Power Source
AC Adapter (Included)
Power Source
AC Power (Cable Built-In/Included)
Battery
No
Input Power
24 VDC at 0.75 A
100 to 240 VAC, 50 / 60 Hz
Power Consumption
18 W (Maximum)
4.3 W (Standby)
Dimensions (W x H x D)
17.8 x 3.8 x 11.3" / 45.3 x 9.6 x 2.86 cm
Weight
7.6 lb / 3.45 kg
Packaging Info
Package Weight
10.575 lb
Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
21.2 x 16.6 x 8"

Plustek 3800L Reviews

3800L Scanner

By Ronald
Rated 3 out of 5
Date: 2023-12-28

The scanner works very well on Windows 10 but I needed support from Plustek to get it going. It would not start from the desktop shortcut. I have to expand the icons on the system tray and find the OpticBook then double click. The Plustek support was very helpful. Note the optical resolution is stated as 1200 dpi but the max scan is 600 dpi.

failure

By Efrain
Rated 1 out of 5
Date: 2020-12-09

the scanner jammed aster a few days. now I am forced to return it

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is it compatible for MAC OS?

is it compatible for MAC OS?
Asked by: natasya
This is compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems.
Answered by: David
Date published: 2025-12-05

Does the lid come off? Book I have is too big if ...

Does the lid come off? Book I have is too big if lid is present but text is in range of scan.
Asked by: Anthony
The document cover of the Plustek OpticBook 3800L Scanner is not designed to be removable and removing the cover is not recommended.
Answered by: Boyd H
Date published: 2025-12-06

Does this scanner work well for legal documents? ...

Does this scanner work well for legal documents? Also, does it scan letter sized documents that are single paged? Thanks.
Asked by: Joanne
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.
Answered by: Yaakov
Date published: 2022-08-25

How does this scanner perform for scanning ...

How does this scanner perform for scanning artworks like sketchbooks?
Asked by: Rex
Yes the OpticBook 3800L could be used for scanning artwork. However, I would recommend our OpticBook A320E if you need to scan anything that is larger than sized.
Answered by: Plustek US
Date published: 2025-12-06

Is this model compatible with Windows 10 32bits ...

Is this model compatible with Windows 10 32bits and 64 bits?
Asked by: George
The Plustek OpticBook 3800L Scanner is compatible with Windows 10 32 and 64 bit.
Answered by: Dan W
Date published: 2023-12-11
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