Plustek OpticBook 3800

Plustek bills its OpticBook 3800 ($299 direct) as an entry-level book scanner, which is an apt description of this flatbed device. Although its overall scan quality proved mediocre, its design helps eliminate distortions by letting you scan right up to...

I bought this to scan some textbooks for OCR / voice conversion. It was fairly easy to setup, though the install disk wasn't quite automatic. I had to do a "custom" install to do each component Individually. I really like the simple one button scan...

The optibook 3600 seemed to be better until it died. Since I am totally blind when the 3800 goes into sleep mode I do not know if it is on or off. My wife has to tell me when the blue light is on.

The scanner itself is fine, provided it is on an absolutely level surface (otherwise it will freeze and produce a "scree" sound until you manually turn it off). What it has over other scanners is how close the scanner bed is to the side, so that you...

I wanted to scan some of my technical manuals for motorcycles. Some of these books are very hard to find and out of print and I didn't want to risk my precious originals in the greasy grimy sometimes damp shop...not to mention the sticky fingers of...

Regarding the comment about imaging close to the spine of the book, I found that we lose five sixteenths of an inch from the edge of the housing to the beginning of the scan area. There is a fiducial line near the right front corner showing where that...

Most Reviewers of this product liked to talk about the scanning being slower then others. I didnt see it, I have been scanning weird shaped document for years. I think it is pretty easy to just press a very big button when I'm ready

The Plustek OpticBook 3800 is a fast-and-accurate scanner, with good OCR software.

Although an ordinary flat-bed scanner handles individual documents and photos without any difficulty, there are problems when one needs to scan pages in a book or any other bound material. This is because the spine prevents the pages being held flat on...