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Plustek OpticBook 4800

Name: Plustek OpticBook 4800
Brand: Plustek
SKU: PLOB4800
Price: 499.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)

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Key Features

Scan An A4-Sized Page In 3.6 Seconds
Ideal For Scanning Books
Book Edge Design Eliminates Spine Shadow
One-Touch Function Buttons

The OpticBook 4800 from Plustek is a cost-effective way to convert books and other printed material into editable text. The scanner's unique book edge elimination design gets rid of spine shadow, providing you with a clean scan without the need for an expensive overhead scanner or image editing software. The convenient one-touch function buttons simplify the scanning process and the included software suite helps you get the most out of your scanner. A key component of the OpticBook 4800 system is its extensive software suite:

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Sprint uses OCR technology to convert your scanned images into editable text, searchable PDF, Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Excel file. Also part of PageManager is a file management system to help you keep track of scanned documents. The software is compatible with up to 183 languages so you can easily OCR texts in most languages. The software even has multi-language recognition and auto language detection so you don't have to specify the import language each time. Also included is Presto! ImageFolio 4.5 which walks you through the process of digitizing and fine-tuning your image collection.

Plustek Book Pavilion converts printed books into the most common electronic formats used by eReaders, including searchable PDF, PDF, TIF, JPG, and BMP. The software's user-friendly design makes it easy to put your printed books on an eReader, saving you the expense of buying digital copies of books you already own. While most book scanners necessitate physically cutting the pages off the spine, the OpticBook's unique edge shadow elimination technology obviates the need for cutting while still providing you with a clean shadow-free scan.

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Plustek 4800 Overview

Designed for book scanning

The Shadow Elimination Element (SEE) eliminates the book spine shadow and text distortion associated with books scanned on flatbeds and copiers.

Create Searchable PDFs

Quickly create searchable PDF files

Fast

Scans an A4-sized page in just 3.6 seconds

Easy To Use

One-touch buttons for performing pre-set functions to improve efficiency and reduce scan time

User-Friendly software

Simple-to-use image processing and document management software bundled for fast and secure Searchable PDF conversion, image and photo editing, thumbnail viewer for locating files easily, sharing files over the network, and highly accurate Optical Character Recognition

NewSoft Presto! ImageFolio 4.5

ImageFolio is a comprehensive multimedia image-processing program. You can create new images by using the ImageFolio's powerful tools. This sophisticated set of image-editing tools enables you to quickly create new images or enhance pre-existing ones

Complete image-tuning functions

Easy to manage and preview image files

Monitor Gamma adjustment

TWAIN interface support for automatic fine-tuning during scanning

Support TIF, PCX, BMP, TGA, JPG, PCD, WMF, and PNG file format (PC)

Image Manager functions as an image database and uses folders to manage and preview files

NewSoft Presto! PageManager 7.10

Powerful document management software for OCR, PDF creation, or format conversion to Microsoft Word or Excel. TWAIN-Express makes it easy to connect with your scanner

Built-in award-winning OCR

Supports over 100 popular applications

Unlimited nested folders to easily organize files

Full-text search with adjustable fuzzy logic and index search

Easy image editing QuickFix tools with real-time preview

New annotation tools include sticky notes and rubber stamps

Share photos via e-mail easily with Presto! Wrapper

Share photos via the Internet by connecting to PhotoNet

Works with any TWAIN scanner

Plustek DI Capture

Image capture and management software featured with indexed archives. It also makes it easy to import, export, edit, and organize documents and images in an efficient way

Plustek DocTWAIN

Industry standard TWAIN drivers ensure compatibility with thousands of image enabled applications including: document management, document capture, enterprise content management, forms processing, photographic imaging and image management applications

Plustek Book Pavilion

Plustek Book Pavilion is an easy to use application that transforms your printed books, magazines and bound material into electronic formats such as: searchable PDF, PDF, TIF, JPG and BMP. The user interface is designed to simplify the scanning process and create electronic copies of your bound material in the fewest number of steps

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Sprint

Comes with simple user interface, supports recognition up to 183 languages and has the following features:

Convert scanned document and images into Microsoft Word, Excel, searchable PDF and other formats

Superior recognition accuracy & layout retention in 183 languages

One-click smart conversion for easy access - no learning curve

Multi-language recognition with automatic language detection

Instant on-screen OCR and capture with bonus ABBYY Screenshot Reader

Plustek DI Express

OCR software for 4 main Asian languages, Traditional Chinese, Simplify Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Better and faster recognizer for documents

UPC: 783064354660

Plustek 4800 Specs

Key Specs

Scanner Type	Flatbed Scanner
Scanner Maximum Resolution	1200 dpi (Optical) 1200 x 2400 dpi (Hardware)
Scanner Color Depth	48-Bit (Internal) 24-Bit (External)
Power Source	AC Adapter (Included)

Scanner

Scanner Type	Flatbed Scanner
Scanner Maximum Resolution	1200 dpi (Optical) 1200 x 2400 dpi (Hardware)
Scan Modes	Color, Grayscale, Monochrome
Scanner 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)
Scan Speed	Simplex Speed 17 ppm in Color/Grayscale

Scanner Media Handling

Scan Sizes

Flatbed
Maximum: 8.5 x 11.7" / 21.6 x 29.7 cm

Connectivity

Data I/O	1x USB-B 2.0 Input
Scanner Drivers	TWAIN
OS Compatibility	Windows

General

Power Source	AC Adapter (Included)
Battery	No
Input Power	24 VDC at 0.75 A
Power Consumption	18 W (Maximum) 4.3 W (Standby)
Operating Conditions	50 to 104°F / 10 to 40°C
Certifications	WEEE
Dimensions (W x H x D)	19.3 x 4 x 11.4" / 49.1 x 10.2 x 29.1 cm
Weight	8.5 lb / 3.9 kg

Packaging Info

Package Weight	11.65 lb
Box Dimensions (LxWxH)	22.5 x 18 x 8.3"

Plustek 4800 Reviews

Very Sloooooow scanner with SW bugs & irritations

By Dave

Rated 1 out of 5

Date: 2024-09-19

claimed speed 17 pages per minute. thats 3.5 seconds per page. It is no where even close to that speed at ANY setting of resolution or color / greyscale/ B&W. Actual speed is only 8 seconds per page (and that assumes 0 seconds to change the page). Sw is still fairly buggy, I can only scan about 30 pages in a row before restarting with a new file name. at 50 pages per, it sometimes crashes so you lose everything you have scanned to that point. Another irritating 'feature' is the alternate 180 rotate sometimes gets out of sync so you have to delete pages, rescan to attempt to get it back into sync. Manual has no clues on workflow, you tube videos are required viewing to get a clue for starting. After 45 days, I upgraded to a CZUR camera scanner for doing books which has its own set of problems (especially with page splitting).

Review is for Plustek in general

By Eduard

Rated 5 out of 5

Date: 2021-12-28

Reviewing Plustek in general. I own and use the OpticBook A300 Plus (scans up to 12x17, drivers avail for Windows only ATM) and uniquely to Plustek, they scan extremely close to the edge (a few mm), so they are especially suited to book scanning. Other book scanning options such as a scanner/camera mounted on a stand taking photos of an open book, and then re-straightening the images in software look like a bogus approach if you want quality. Stick to Plustek or similar book-specific flatbed scanners. The software Plustek provides is basic. I recommend using 3rd party software (extra cost, sure) - for ex. VueScan (Windows or Mac) supports most/all of the Plustek scanners (after you install Plustek's own drivers) for scanning. And once a book is scanned to images, use something like ABBYY FineReader PDF for OCR/conversion to PDF, Word docx and other formats. You can even make your own ePub's using a process such as VueScan (Mac or Windows) - FineReader PDF OCR (Mac or Windows) - Export to docx - Import docx to Vellum (Mac only) - lots of manual tweaking - Export to ePub.

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question

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.

Asked by: Rick

FWIW, this situation appears to have changed since Jacob C. answered in 2018. I use a Mac running macOS 10.15.6 (Catalina), and the Plustek driver (version 3.0.0.1, dated 7/28/2020) and included MacPavilion software works well with it.

Answered by: Eric

Date published: 2020-09-18

Can this be used to scan documents instead of ...

Can this be used to scan documents instead of books?

Asked by: Jed

Yes absolutely!

Answered by: Plustek US

Date published: 2024-06-03

Is the glass flat to the plastic surround, i.e. ...

Is the glass flat to the plastic surround, i.e. could I use it to scan oversize books? (like music books, which generally only have A4 content, but the margin is huge) (I can't afford the A3 one, so don't go there). Basically, can you get a book that's slightly bigger than the glass to sit flat, or will it lip up as per usual?

Asked by: Monseigneur

The plastic surround on the scanner only has 3 sides. The glass goes right up to the edge of the scanner on the margin side of the book. All other sides have a surround. If the pages of your book are up to A4 size they will lay flat on the glass. It's ok if the cover is bigger, the pages will still lay flat as long as they are A4 size or smaller.

Answered by: Plustek US

Date published: 2020-07-15

What is difference between 4800 and 3800 models?

Asked by: Keith

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.

Answered by: Eric

Date published: 2023-11-22

question

What is the modulation transfer function at 1200DPI? I ask this question because every scanner I have used gives faded output, that I must raise the gamma to make the scans usable. This adds noise to the scan.

Asked by: Anonymous

While this scanner scans at 1200dpi I would not recommend using that high of a resolution to scan books. You will get HUGE file sizes if you do that. I would recommend scanning books at 300dpi maximum.If you need high resolution, high color accuracy scans for artwork etc, I'd recommend taking a look at our OpticPro A320.

Answered by: Mark D. Plustek Expert

Date published: 2018-08-28

question

Answer to is it duplex scanner in 1 pass is yes . How can scanner scan both sides when book hides backside?

Asked by: Anonymous

That answer is incorrect -- this model is not a duplex scanner.

Answered by: Jared M.

Date published: 2020-09-18

question

What is the edge size?

Asked by: Pamela

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?

Answered by: Mark D. Plustek Expert

Date published: 2020-09-18

question

How long does it actually take to scan an A4 page? THe specs say 3.5 seconds, however this PC Magazine review says 9 seconds. That's a huge difference. How does it compare to OptiBook 3600?

Asked by: Alexander

Hi Alexanderthe scanning speed is depend on your setting , system you are using to scan and solution you want. we tested it scans at 3.5 seconds for a grayscale 200dpi A4 size. OB3600 scan at 7 sec per page.

Answered by: Mark D. Plustek Expert

Date published: 2022-08-26