Shine800-A3-Pro Professional Height Adjustable USB Document Camera, A3&A4 Document Scanner with OCR Function for MacOS and Windows

This is an excellent product that is very handy for graduate students. If you are working with archival sources, taking this portable scanner along to the archive will make it much easier than using a phone or camera. You can pack it in most backpacks and carry it around with your laptop, which is the only other thing you need. It is quite small and light, but also can scan up to A3, which means you can put more documents together. The scanner is quick, readable and has many customization options for the scans (size, dimensions, OCR). It is also quite affordable and you get the proprietary software, as well as the excellent support for the scanner. Taken together, highly recommend for professional research use (recommended it for many colleagues), or even at home if you need to scan some paperwork.

I found this equipment easy to use and got my task completed readily: scanning and archiving a number of years of my wife’s community newspaper. Scanning was much quicker and cheaper than DIY at commercial photocopy shop as well as hiring a commercial service where costs would have been upwards of $700-900 and many hours. I plan to use this scanner when I return to university teaching online and in person.

It doesn't do pictures well, so if that is what you are getting it for, don't. It also doesn't acknowledge foreign language words, like ñ ç ó... things like that. You have to make sure you keep the page and the screen's view even or you'll have to rotate it later I like that you don't have to destroy the book to get a good book scan. If you have high gloss pages, then this is not the scanner for you, but otherwise it's helpful for anyone that wants a book in a scanned form on their computer. After you OCR, you do have to work on the scan, as alot of the book comes in individual text boxes. So in order for you to get a book to look like a book in WORD, you have to copy, cut, paste. I hope that makes sense. It's not as easy as the video showed, as they didn't show once you OCR. That's when the actual work is, since, essentially, you are scanning into your computer an image. Acquiring those words from that scan is where this device is useful.

As a school librarian, I needed something that would work well for archiving old materials. Also, in this time of COVID, this works excellently as a document camera for still images, and recorded videos. The greatest surprise to me is that this includes a microphone, making it also suitable as a webcam for remote teaching. All in all, while perhaps a little pricey, it serves as a high quality camera with multiple uses. The scanner is quick and easy to setup with its USB cable and foot pedal. The software enables the scanner to take pictures and do archival tasks easily, but the computer recognizes it is a camera regardless so that any video conferencing program you use (Zoom, Skype, Google Meet, etc) will simply recognize it as a webcam and microphone without the need to install any software. The form factor is beautifully designed, in that it folds up nicely for storage and has a small footprint that barely take up any space. Would I recommend this for the average person to purchase, probably not, BUT for the librarian/teacher/archivist, or other professional who needs to digitize a lot of their work, this multi-tasker is THE tool to buy!!

I got this because it was advertised as a scanner and a document camera in one. The document scanner feature is software dependent. However, the software version that has that feature is not available for this model of the scanner. There is only one scanner manual that actually lists the document camera feature and its the most expensive scanner. I reached out to customer support, listing my exact scanner and they sent back a screen shot of the software with the feature, but failed to acknowledge what software version I should have. I sent back showing I have the most up to date software for my scanner model (Shine 800 A3 Pro) software version 2.1. And showed that my software does not have the feature they listed. I still have not heard back from customer support after sending screen shots. EDIT: I heard back that the software to use the scanner as a doc camera is only currently available for Mac and they are "hoping" to have it available for Windows at the end of Nov. They really should have put this in the product description. Its really disappointing that they sell it as a doc camera and scanner but fail to mention that its only one model that has the actual feature. The scanner works well that is why I gave it 3 stars and if a scanner is all I needed I would have given it 4 maybe 5 stars. I am not pleased with the customer support and the deceptive advertising.

I cannot rate features because I have not yet been able to use the product. Once I have the problems in downloading the software resolved I expect this scanner to be very useful. For some reason the online software will not work on my computer using Windows 11. I did download it but cannot find an app which will work. It seems to be a problem with Google interface. A program disk is included but my computer, like most current laptops, does not have an optical drive. The hardware and packaging have received a well-deserved international design award. I hope CZUR and Google customer services will help.

recomendable para hojas mate y planas, no para brillantes (si se utiliza con las luces que incorpora) este modelo no cuenta con la funcion para aplanar las hojas curvas, ideal para documentos indiviudales.