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I timed the A300 in scanning book pages at an average of 6.5 seconds per 300 dpi grayscale page after an average 5.7-second pre-scan. In testing book scanning, I initiated scans both from the Book Pavilion scanning utility (which lets you scan to different file types and resolutions, choose between different sources: books, magazines, newspapers, art magazines, select filenames, automatically rotate pages or not) and from the scan buttons.
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The A300 has pretty much the same software as the Plustek OpticBook 38: Abbyy FineReader 9.0 Sprint for optical character recognition (OCR) Newsoft Presto! PageManager and Plustek's own DI Capture 1.0 for document management Presto! ImageFolio 4.5 for photo editing a Twain driver for scanning directly from most Windows programs that include a scan command and Book Pavilion, a book-scanning program. This makes for speedy scanning while reducing the risk of damaging delicate originals. After the facing pages are shot by twin DSLRs, you lift the platen, flip the page, and shoot the next spread. A v-shaped retractable platen holds the pages in place. With such a scanner, you place the book, pages facing upward, in a v-shaped cradle. This is an issue that is avoided by V-shaped book scanners such as the Atiz Mini.
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There's some risk that the book could fall if you don't watch it closely (when you open the lid, or by jostling the scanner), so an alternative is to move the scanner away from the table's edge and have the facing side rest on the table. This eliminates shadows at the binding, minimizes distortion, and helps the text lines to stay straight.
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When the A300 is placed at the edge of a table or desk, the book can lie flat on the platen, with the spine at the edge, and the facing side of the book hanging straight down. The flatbed's design helps eliminate distortion, as the platen glass comes right up to the edge of the scanner, the main hardware feature that distinguishes it from a conventional flatbed scanner.