The new Plustek OpticBook 3600 has a bookedge along one of the long edges
of the platen. Its not wedge shaped, its just that the platen comes within
6 millimeters of the outside edge of the scanner. If you put the spine of a
book along that edge, you should get a very good scan of a single page.
The platen is A4 size - that's 8.5 by 11.69 inches. You could use it to
scan two pages at once, but there would be no reason to expect that it
would do any better at that than any other letter sized scanner, since you
would not be taking advantage of the bookedge.
It indicates that a scan takes 7 seconds. My guess is that this is the time
to scan the platen (at who knows what resolution), but does not include the
return trip for the scanner bar. Nonetheless, that's pretty fast.
All this comes from the web site - we still don't have our hands on one of
these.
Stephen
At 02:19 AM 9/3/2004, you wrote:
Mary, I am not sure what we are missing. I was interpreting the scanner as having the platen flush to both the left and right edges, which would allow for better single-page scanning of largish hardcovers, rather than a wedge-shaped platen which would allow for true two page scanning. As the description is rather poor, we will need to wait until someone receives one of these things.
Guido .
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Guido,
I beliefe I'm spacially challenged, but in reading this description, I don't see how one would do two page scanning with this scanner. The description sounded as if they are expecting the book spine to be at the
scanner edge. Yet, if I do two pages at once, the book's spine is certainly not near the edge; its in the middle, more or less, of the scanner, running across or down the length, depending on whether its a mass market
paperback or a larger trade paper or standard hard cover book that is being scanned. If I have to scan one page at a time with this, I'm underwhelmed, to say the least. It would be good for those larger books where
you can't do two pages at once on a regular scanner; but that's about it. What am I missing here?
Mary
