Plustek OpticBook 4800 Book Scanner

Gut zum Scannen von Büchern, Farbfotos gehen aber sehr ins Lilafarbstichige, eine Korrektur ist nicht möglich. Die Software halbwegs bedienungsfreundlich. Der Namenzusatz 4800 ist nicht nachvollziehbar, da er normalerweise für 4800 dpi Scanner angebracht wäre. Der Scanner hat 1200 dpi, ist auch so angegeben.

I bought the scanner for work. It is not reliable. Every time i scan it gives me vertical lines on the pages. I have to delete 5 pages in order to get one good scan. It is a waist of my time.

Update February 2022. After almost six years and thousands of scans later, the 4800 is still going strong. This is a great scanner but, I just upgraded to the Ver 7 software and that is a disaster. I won't get into all of it but, if you are a serious user who wants to make precise adjustments on your scans, dump the version 7 software and find Ver 6. Ver 6 has its quirks as I outline below but you'll be happier with it. Even if it cannot remember the last folder you saved to! The 4800 is still a great scanner but, the software is not so great. Now back to my original review from 6 years ago. Oh yes, it works fine on Windows 10.I originally purchased a Opticbook 3900 from another seller when I started my website because the 4800 was pricey and I also needed a large format scanner as well and spending nearly $800 apiece on the two scanners seemed a bit too much. However, after a couple of months using the 3900 I switched to the 4800 and it was money well spent. If only I bought it first I could have saved $250 for the 3900.I switched to the 4800 because it has a narrower edge than the 3900, 2mm for the 4800 vs 6mm for the 3900. For those of us who work in decimal that's about 1/10 (1/16") of an inch for the 4800 as compared to about .25" (1/4") for the 3900. This little bit helped scan some old catalogs and manuals without ruining the spine, at least in some cases not too badly. I use the scanner primarily for PDF creation.The scanner was easy to set up for Windows 7. It is pretty fast, not as fast as the 3900, about 7 seconds or so per page. Since I am scanning equipment manuals with schematics and illustrations, I use 300dpi and I am very happy with the results. There are 4 buttons on the front panel, 'Cancel", 'Color", 'Gray', and 'B/W'. They are handy but I had to tape over all but the 'Color' because when I am scanning quickly I found it was to easy to hit the wrong one.The unit comes with 3 software packages. Plustek Book Pavillion, Newsoft Presto! Pagemanager, and ABBYY FineReader. Since I use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to assemble my PDFs I'll only comment on the Book Pavillion. It works well for scanning and is easy to use but for the following. First, the window is way too small for me. It only opens to about a quarter of the screen. The preview screen is even smaller, maybe a tenth of my 22" screen. If you are setting the scan area with the draggable window it is hard to see exactly where you are dragging too. And the lines that delineate the window look like they are one pixel wide and a kinda pale purple color, not very visible but I have learned to work with it. Also, you can set the page rotation, 90 degrees left or right 180 degrees on all, odd, or even scans. Really nice but sometimes in the middle of a scan you need to change the orientation and when you change the rotation it doesn't start from where you changed it, it goes back and looks at the beginning of whole scan process or 5 pages back or wherever it decides to. I haven't quite figured it out yet. Very annoying. Rotation should start with the page where you decided to change. Lastly, after a couple of hours of scanning, the crop you have set earlier will just change, no apparent reason, the scanner just decides that you would like it better if it now cut the top or bottom off the page. I haven't found a cure for this either other than shutting down and coming back later. This doesn't always happen and could be a fluke of my computer and conflicting software running at the same time, I just don't know.OK, after running down the software for its quirks, I really like this scanner. I have also used it for pictures and they look fine in Paint Shop Pro X9. If you need to scan books without destroying the spine, this is for you. 2mm puts you really close to the spine but be forewarned some books still need less. If you need a large format scanner, I recommend the Plustek OpticSlim 1180.

I really wanted to like this scanner, but unfortunately the device, the software and the company fail miserably.I purchased the Optibook 4800 scanner in January of 2016 and since then have had the device completely fail on my 3 times. Initially the scanner would work fine, then after a few months, it would only produce all black images. After contacting the company and working with their Technical Support people, they would determine that a chip had failed and that I would have to ship the scanner back to them to be repaired. It would take over a week of me constantly calling and emailing them to get them to generate an RMA so that I could ship it back to them (at my expense) even though they determined that it needed to be returned on the first day. It would take them another week to repair it and then another week to ship it back.The first time this happened, they shipped back a broken scanner that had to be retuned right away. They will provide Cross Shipping, where they will send you another scanner while yours is being returned, but you have to secure that with a credit card which they charge and then refund when they receive the returned scanner.The software is amateurish at best and seems to have been an afterthought. It is lacking a good deal of fine tuning features. Also, if you use the auto-cropping feature, it tends to shorten the scan after each page, so you loose more of page with each scan.On the whole, I will only use the scanner as long as the warranty and the hardware holds out and will then look for a better scanner and company.

Unit scans fast, and has more contrast that other scanners I have used. But the software authors need to go back to school! (They should actually try to use the apps they write!) App forces you to make a test scan every time you want to access the configuration (contrast, brightness, gamma, scan boundary/auto deskew, filename to generate, etc.) Window where you view to adjust contrast, etc. is so tiny you can't see the effects of the edit, and the window is made non-adjustable so you can'r enlarge it. There is no manual whatsoever. The "online help" is useless, being an endless maze of menu/sub menus you must "bore down through", then saying nothing such as "adjust gamma, brightness, contrast for good image" without explaining what each does (the "gamma" is not real gamma, and it works backwards. When scanning books, there needs to be a way to globally edit a whole batch of images at once.) The good feature is the buttons on the scanner which you configure, then need not touch the PC while scanning. Instead of having "color", "gray", "B/W", I would allow each button total freedom such as "gray photo", "gray text", "color photo", etc. If you scan to file and have your own image editing software you like, then this will work well. The Page Manager makes good PDFs, but will not allow OCR from a PDF. What were they thinking? Most of the other features are either useless, or I can't figure out, or I don't know they exist because again, there is no manual, only the Help maze!