Thread: Plustek opticpro a320 a3 flatbed scanner.

Home users expecting for a scanner for occasional utilize will search plenty of selection in the AIO and portable scanner market these days, but those who would expect towards more professional application, or to scan big papers such as newspapers and magazines, aren't nearly as well catered for; particularly at an affordable cost.

Plustek aims to address this with the OpticPro A320, an A3-able big format scanner with a maximum area of twelve-inches by seventeen-inches and a maximum resolution of 1600dpi. It's surely a hefty beast, and while you wouldn't expect an A3 scanner to be in any path portable, we were trusting for something a bit more modern.

The chunky device is finished in a rather bland grey and off-white and characteristics an array of 7 instead cheap-appearing assure buttons that behave as shortcuts to scan-to-file, email, OCR and more. The rest of the functionality is handled by the supply software, and admittedly this is fairly comprehensive.



Throughout the short install routine the main configuration software is set up and you're extended the selection of contributing Abbyy FineReader 6.0 for OCR, NewSoft Presto! pictureFolio for picture retouching and editing and Presto! PageManager to hold papers in order.These are all fairly powerful and worthy packages in their own right, and while there isn't anything especially ground-breaking on offer, it's reassuring to know that all the tools you might require to use such a device are supplied.

Despite appearing a small on the ‘cheap' side, the A320 has been quite well planed and by the configuration software it's potential to customise the behaviour of the assures to save picture as several filetypes, at several resolutions, to various locations while utilizing various effects.