CZUR ET24 Pro Professional Book Scanner, 24MP Document Camera, 3rd Gen Auto-Flatten & Deskew Tech, A3 Document Scanner, 180+ Languages OCR, Support HDMI, for Windows/MacOS/Linux

I have been an avid reader and lifelong "hoarder" of information that I've found to be useful. These resources can come from anywhere (books, letters, magazines, greeting cards, receipts) so you can imagine that instead of storing them in boxes or on a bookshelf where I have to be there to read it, I've enjoyed digitizing them to store them on the computer, my phone or float them into the cloud for easy access or sharing. Along the way, different scanners have come along to make this possible for people like me. I own a Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 for documents, receipts and individual pieces of paper that I can feed into it, an Epson - Perfection V39 II for photos, documents and previously for full books and magazines and now the Czur ET24 Pro which has surprised me with its approach of scanning books and such. The setup was a breeze and the results have been amazing. Not only does the scanner have great image quality, it saves your scans as jpegs and also allows you to convert them into separate or grouped PDFs, MS Word documents or other formats. Being it's basically a camera with lots of open space below it, you could also "scan" items other than papers. You could photograph a kids toy before disposing it or giving it away. Use your imagination and share ideas here for others. As I fool around with it more, I'll revise my review but this is a genuinely useful tool for people looking to organize and digitize information they find important in their lives. I realize my review makes it appear that I work for the company. I don't! Just really happy to have such a timesaver in my life with a company that seems like they're into their customers and making well built products.

Very good machine with ease of setup and operates well. I bought to replace a ScanSnap scanner because the ScanSnap would not work with a Snapdragon/ARM Windows 11 PC. The CZUR works perfectly. The quality of scans is good and it does a good job of aligning images. It even took pages of a printed Excel file, scanned them and they I ran through ChatGPT and recreated the Excel file. Amazing!! I like the separate finger and foot scanner start buttons.

I have been using the CZUR ET24 Pro and I’m thoroughly impressed. It’s fast, reliable, and very handy for scanning old and valuable books without causing any damage. The image quality is excellent, and the scanning process is smooth and efficient. One of my favorite features is the HDMI output, which allows me to connect it directly for live demonstrations or to create high-quality presentations for social media. The software is also very powerful, especially for post-processing and batch processing, making file management and editing effortless. Overall, this is a top-tier scanner that combines speed, precision, and versatility. Highly recommended for anyone serious about preserving books, documents, or creating digital archives.

I recently was gifted the CZUR ET24 Pro Professional Book Scanner, and I must say it is impressive and extremely useful technology. It has been useful from a student, new employee, and home/personal perspectives. The packaging conveyed quality from the outset. The setup and interface with my computer was without difficulty. Most impressive is the high resolution quality of the scanned pages/documents. This unit allows for digital copies single page documents and double page books, and the technology converts them into single pages, in a variety of formats, (word, pdf etc) with amazing speed and clarity. Batch processing of longer works or single pages, books or magazines articles illustrate the ease and versatility of the ET 24 Pro. I have found the foot pedal accessory optimal as it frees my hands. I could not be more satisfied with my gift of this scanner, and I highly recommend the Czur ET24 Pro to those that wish to share in the ease of scanning.

Short answer is it works very well with books that have straight flat pages i.e. the pages that open symmetrically with same curvature left to right so the laser beams have symmetrical tracing lines on both pages. The readability of text and quality of black & white text is really great The quick scanning promised by this scanner works only if your priority is raw digitalization of content. If you're hoping for even margins, straight pages then that requires much more love & care and perhaps not with czur software but photoshop. The problems I experienced: 1. Thick books like dictionaries. If you scan the middle of the book with pages equally spread to left and right the scan is great. The challenge is with the first and last pages [that is likely 80% of the book content] when the book would not stay open or symmetrically open and the pages on left and right do not have same curvature which is essential for the flattening laser beams operation.. In result even if the left and right pages come out flat they come out with different margins. I will try the czur assistive cover to see if it helps. 2. There is a problem to get a nice scan with used books [especially the smaller format pages] with pages stubborn to stay flat. Not flat as left to right but top to bottom. If the page is wavy across all 3D axis the scan will not come out well. It would be nice to have some feature to hold the book page down around the edges to symmetrize the left & right pages or perhaps a transparent press down page. Those 2 yellow finger holders are not effective in that case, perhaps a holder that would pin down the page along the page edge would work better. 3. The CZUR software has the auxiliary correction feature that as I understand offers the option to manually adjust the pages curvature lines to improve the flattening effect (see problem 1 &2 above). I spent some time with it and cannot figure out how it works toward the expected improved result, nor I found any good tutorial for that feature on czur pages or in any reviews. If it works indeed this is a last resort option anyway as this operation must be applied to each individual page in the book, let's hope czur will provide more documentation for that. 4. The color pages scans seem to suffer from glare. The scan is not always truthful to the original. I tried to play with the adjustments such as color, brightness and contrast Perhaps it requires even more finesse on my end or better ambience lighting like the one used in professional photography.

I bought the CZUR ET24 as I had watched a few videos and read a few reviews of it, after I had narrowed my search to a CZUR product. It is drop dead simple to set up and use. I am writing a history of my small hometown and much of the material I have from that era, for direct use and for time period reference, is in the form of old and mostly out of print books and images I got from old newspapers - from fifty plus year old microfilm. I have a small book I was using, about 150 pages. I set up the ET24, downloaded the software in a few minutes and scanned it, my first attempt, in 12 minutes, using the auto-scan feature. You can turn a page and when the software detects that movement has stopped for a couple of seconds, it will scan. This means if you have to adjust the book, or fumble with turning a page, the scanner won’t fire and get an image of your hand. I did some editing and adjusting of images, which took another 13 minutes. This is while learning to use the scanner. I was able to save it as a searchable PDF and I could upload that to my Kindle reader. I also uploaded it to my Voice Dream Reader, and I had an over 100-year-old, out of print audio book, as well. Just being able to highlight as I go on the Kindle is a tremendous time saver, not to mention the fact I can use the Kindle’s search feature. I can also share this material with others or draw from it for on-line forum posts. I had previously gotten images of newspapers, from 1897 to 1931, that I saved as jpg images from microfilm at a public library. I have them in folders by year. I was able to upload these folders, combine all images into one searchable pdf and now I can search the newspapers for any words or phrases. This just involves the software, and not the scanner- even if I did not have the scanner this software is well worth the purchase price, for me. I can now search, literally thousands and thousands of images and I do not have to read and index each interesting thing for future reference. It was literally a few clicks to get this done. Those few clicks saved me days of effort in finding what I wanted. With the scanner I can get images of things such as old scrapbooks, and photographs. I can also get images of 3D objects- in my case some old photo print blocks from a long-ago newspaper from the early 1900’s. I can save these scanned images as Word Docs and then copy and paste them into the text of the book I am writing. I can also easily take this with me to sites where material is stored and do my scanning there. Previously I was capturing images with my phone, then downloading and spending a lot of time putting them into files and tagging them with the names I could reference in a search. I can now capture the images, tag them all at the same time e.g. “1927 Scrap Book-Mary Smith” and the software will number them in the order in which they are scanned. I can save all images as singles, and/or save them as Word Docs/pdfs- or both. I do woodworking and I do not buy the cheapest tool. I always say, “If you buy a cheap tool it will work just well enough to tick you off and you’ll wish you’d bought the better one.” The ET24 with the adjustable overhead lights and the lights on the post of the scanner make it possible to get good images from e.g., glossy objects or 3d objects, where you’d want light on the sides as well directly overhead. If you find yourself ruminating over if you want to buy the $600 one, over the $300, then you, like me, probably really want and need the $600 one.

About two years ago, I bought 3 different scanners for different purposes. This CZUR 24 was for larger items and books. For the money paid, I am very disappointed with this scanner. Resolution: First, the description says it offers 24MP. I have no doubt that the camera in this device shoots at this native resolution. The problem is you can't get 24MP out of it because it will NOT let you shoot in RAW or TIFF formats directly. ALL scans are taken as JPEGs. The software will let you convert this resulting JPEG into a TIFF or other format, but converting from JPEG to TIFF completely defeats the purpose. Please note, I have been careful to select maximum resolution and maximum quality on all scans. I am mystified as to why you can't shoot in RAW or TIFF directly since it appears the hardware is capable of doing this - but the software just won't let you do it. Color Fidelity: This scanner does a poor job at replicating colors. They are often washed out and there is no way to fix this issue (I've tried). I've been careful to provide soft, even lighting and even direct bright light - nothing works. For example, a bright orange always comes out as a dull, almost brownish color. Blue colors seem less affected, though, but the overall image of color drawings and art is dull and a bit muddy. As a comparison, I used the same lighting and took pictures of the same drawings with my Pixel 8 phone camera - The color and resolution was much better. It's disappointing that a phone camera can outperform a device that is supposed to be specialized for this task. Please note, none of these issues have improved with software updates as I have installed every available update when it was available. The Good Parts: If my rating was based on the above 2 factors, this would merit a 1-star review. But the other features of the scanner do make up some ground. It is very easy to use. You do have multiple lighting options which can be very helpful. The auto-cropping feature works exactly as intended and I found it to be accurate with cropping. If an image isn't cropped correctly, you can switch the scan area to manual selection and easily size the area to be scanned. I also found that the curve correction software definitely helps and is quite useful. So if you have an open book with pages that curve out from the spine, this scanner will handle that problem effectively. Conclusion: If you are looking for a scanner that records information quickly and easily this will be fine for your purposes. So if you're interested in the contents of a book you have, but really don't care that much about a faithful reproduction, then this is fine. If you are looking for something that faithfully reproduces colors and does so in high detail, do NOT buy this.

I own a CZUR Fancy S Pro, AURA X Pro and this ET24 Pro. I waited a while to write this review because I originally had issues with the quality of the scans that tech support could not help with, but after some experimentation I found a solution and am getting GREAT quality and so the reason for the 5 stars. I am passing those tips along in this review so other can make the right choice. The difference between the AURA X Pro and the ET24 is in the fidelity and quality fo the scan. While the Aura X is GREAT, the results from the ET24 are OUTSTANDING! But this comes with some considerations anyone who purchases must be willing to accept. These result mostly from the sensativity of the scanner and accuracy of the scan. When I originally started using the ET24 I could not get scans without a "ghost" from the specialized finger cots used to hold the page down. You could barely see these on the scanned page, but they were there. The tech support team was very helpful but it came down to very small shadows from the room lighting. No matter how I changed the room lighting (or turned it off) this did not help and the lights on the scanner did not resolve it. The pages were still great, but not "perfect". After a lot of trial and error I went to the local art store and bought a piece of 16" x 20" MUSEUM QUALITY non-glare glass (not the cheap stuff). As the picture I uploaded shows the added advantage from using the glass is that is kept the pages flat without the need for the finger cots and solved the glare problem. Flipping pages and scanning took longer, but the results were well worth it for books and documents I wanted in the best posisble quality. I am not considering spending the money to buy a 16' x 20" sheet of Tru Vue Optium Museum Acrylic instead of worring about the glass that could break (see using the ET24 as a portable scanner below). I found that using the glass I could also scan without using the main lights on the head of the scanner and obtained great results since the glass diffused any ambient light. The second challenge I found with the scanner is that is is not as portable as my Aura X Pro. If you want super portability then go with the Aura X.... BUT, I also found a way to take the ET24 with me when I do rare books and documents in libraries that I want the greatest quality for. This was also a simple solution. I purchased an inexpensive "Tower" computer case from amazon. The original ET24 box with padding slips into easily as does the 16" x 24" glass (another reason I plan to buy acrylic). All the accessories (and more like the CZUR binder covers) fit right in so I carry this with my laptop to those special places and it works like a champ. SO YOU CAN, with little effort, use the ET24 as a portable scanner! For those who want to use the full black mat on the ET24 you can buy a larger glass piece but I did not see any need for it. I uploaded some photos to show all of this. Any regrets? YES ONE! That is that within about a week after I bought my ET24 the ET25 came out and I wish someone told me! Other than that, great products and hope all this helps you in buying and using yours!