Features:

  • ✔WE SCAN SIZES - A3 11.69""x 17" Large Format Scanning
  • ✔NO MORE WAITING - LED Light Source, Save Energy, No Warm Up
  • ✔HASSLE-FREE OPERATION - Pre Set Function One-Touch Button for Your Quick Use.
  • ✔POWERFUL SOFTWARE BUNDLE - Enhanced OCR Accuracy with ABBYY FineReader 12, and DocAction for File Sharing
  • ✔SCAN MODE - 48 bit Color /16 bit Gray-Scale for Scan Art, Documents and Other Items
Holy crap huge!

I knew the scanner was going to be large, that's why I purchased it. But when you have been dealing with standard sized paper scanners for as long as I have and then get this- wow! It also picks up color amazingly. Most scanners I've worked with don't pick up pinks very well. This did great! I still have to do a little tweaking in photoshop, but nowhere near as much.

Great experience on an iMac with alternative VueScan software

I was surprised that since this scanner is listed as being for both PC and Mac, that the only included disc is for Windows. On PlusTek's website, I downloaded the Mac software for the OpticSlim 1180 scanner, which turned out to be a required driver for Mac, bundled with a user application called MacAction. You don't necessarily have to use MacAction, but you do have to run the installer anyway, in order to get the scanner driver installed, which only happens concurrently with the installation of MacAction. The MacAction user interface felt like running test software that hadn't been finished, but I found that an alternative called VueScan has a much more detailed, polished, and intuitive layout -- however there is a one-time license cost if you decide that you are going to use VueScan. The VueScan support technician helped me figure out that my 6-year-old iMac needs a 32-bit version of the VueScan installer instead of the 64-bit version. It works beautifully, and I've since run the first incremental upgrade that came out afterward, and it still works perfectly. I scan a lot of printed items such as magazines, which require a good Descreen option. I found that selecting 600 DPI in VusScan yields gorgeous Descreened results, and of course the scan can be saved afterward in Photoshop or other editing software if I need a final resolution other than 600 DPI. If you decide not to use MacAction, you may be annoyed that it added itself to autostart on your Mac every time that you power on, restart, or logon. To remove that autostart, click on System Preferences (the gear icon on the Dock) and then click on Users & Groups. Click the Login Items tab near the top of the dialogue box, and then you can click to highlight the startup item and click the minus sign to remove it. I think that PlusTek would get a ton of more sales and positive reviews from Mac owners if they could make a licensing arrangement with VueScan and include a Mac installer disc with their scanners.

Tech support master Nelson is the best

I haven't used it a great deal but I finally decided to try & get it set-up on the computer. I, myself am not great with this stuff ... At all but I got with the tech support & that guy was great. He was patient & walked me through step by step. Huge shout out to Nelson. I just assumed my setting up of this thing would include some ranting & raving, cursing at it, as is usually the case with my familiarizing myself with new technologies but with Nelson's help I was able to avoid all the rage & frustration all together. Thank you 🙏

The OCR function is working better than Adobe's OCR software

I have used it a few times now and it is working as advertised. The OCR function is working better than Adobe's OCR software. So far so good...

Mac Users-Beware Windows malware sneaking in along with Plustek Driver Installation

I am using this scanner connected to a Mac Mini and am enjoying it immensely. Initially, after downloading the latest Mac drivers from the Plustek website, about 50% of the time the scan would come up black. Sometimes I had to restart to regain a scanner connection. Then yesterday after a restart, a window popped up wanting me to install Similar Photo something-or-other software. This bit of Windows software, which I consider malware, installed itself onto the Mac and was interfering. Hopefully it has now been all deleted-successful scanning percentage has climbed to about 98%, which is fine for my work.

Great value

You can't beat the price for scanning large documents. We have infrequent need to scan large documents, so this really fit the bill. Be sure to follow the simple installation instructions. Install the drivers before plugging in or you might run into an issue with the OS reporting that too much power used by a USB device. With drivers installed everything works fine. Scanning is fast and simple.

I’m having your babies, scanner.

Fast shipping, fast and easy setup! The easily detachable cover is very useful! Make sure to have monitors that are calibrated when scanning. At first I was using a setup with older monitors but once I tried it on my laptop, I just knew I had to have this scanners babies.

Great so far...

I recently purchase this large scaled scanner to scan old oversized scrapbook pages. I installed the Mac apt and made sure I had the latest version by going to the web site. I had a little trouble getting the scans to show up on my desktop so I called the technical support and spoke to Bubbles ! She was great. She was quite polite and patient and got everything worked out in a few minute. I was very impressed with her help. I have only scanned a few pages but everything seem to be of great quality and especially what I was looking for. If you are in need of a large format scanner for general use ,then this should do the trick. If you need a more professional scanner for high detail work, like art work, then maybe another scanner will be need. But be prepared for it to be much more expensive.

The best large format for the buck (with VueScan)

Now comes bundled with Mac action and works like a charm. And it does the job as good as a $2000 Epson. Pay 50 bucks for the 32 bit version of the VueScan software. It is totally worth it. And, this thing is FAST compared to some expensive scanners from Epson and Canon.

Big enough to do the job

Excellent product! I am digitizing all the old family scrapbooks, many which are disintegrating around the photos. (Acid-free paper was not a "thing" ion the 1970s, at least not for regular folks)

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