CZUR 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.

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 bought this to replace my old Epson flatbed scanner, using it to scan sheet music into the computer. The Epson flatbed served me well for 25 years, even though it took about 30 seconds to scan one page. When you're doing a 30-page score, it was a real chore. This CZUR Shine 800 A3 is for larger target sizes. Perfect for sheet music and songbooks. And it is fast! Merely step on the footswitch and you're done. No worry about light bleeds, crooked scans or holding down the scanner lid for those thick books. The only negative part of the install process was the driver. The installation CD was blank. No problem. Finding the driver on the Internet, however, involved cross-checking serial and model numbers. Why companies force customers to type 20-digit numbers on a piece of hardware, I'll never know. Neither does the software support standard CTRL-C and CTRL-V copy/paste functions. Once you pass the driver installation, simply place your source material on the black mat, mash the foot switch, and save to your drive. If OCR is your game, there is a wide variety of export formats, including PDF, DOCX, etc to choose from. The only available graphics format is JPG, unfortunately. Not an issue with today's modern graphics packages, but PNG would have been nice. Last but not least, is the book scanning feature. While CZUR puts a lot of faith into the "smart" features, I found it difficult. The songbook I used as a test just didn't scan well. The idea for the footswitch was driven by the user having to hold the book edges, holding both hands hostage. Still, you end up with a nasty curve at the top and bottom of the double-page document. The only solution (besides living with it) is to buy a piece of heavy glass to lay on top of the book. Plexi-glass tends to get foggy and scratched with constant handling. BOTTOM LINE: If you're into speed and quality, this scanner is optimal. Even with the sub-optimal software, it's a great piece of hardware.

I love my new scanner!!! So glad I got it! I was going to a Craft weekend and scanning different size photos from small up to 12x12 and it worked great!!! So easy to set up and start working on my projects!!! The foot pedal is the greatest!!! How easy to put the picture don on the mat and hit the foot pedal!!! So Easy!!! I got so much done that weekend - can't wait to do more!!! I just brought it in the box it came in and it worked out great! - very portable! Great value and was an Amazon Choice! Would recommend!

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.