CZUR Document Scanner, ET18 Pro Book Scanner Smart A3 Document Scanner Document Camera with OCR WIFI Function Auto Flatten Curve Tech, 18MP HD Camera, 180+ Languages OCR for Windows & Mac
Scanning is as Easy as Turning a Page
- The Quality You Deserve
Whether you need to digitize blueprints for your business, thick bound history books for your research, generate and present in real-time to demonstrate material with your class or office, or other objects for your work and hobbies, the ET Series Scanner will get your projects done in less time with no headaches.
- Simple to Use
Usability is our top priority. Though professional and sophisticated in features and technology, our ET Series Scanner is easy to use for anyone. Simple in design and functionality, the ET18 Pro document scanner makes the logistics of your project streamlined and easy to operate without bulkiness or taking up space.
How to download CZUR Software
- Go to CZUR website by simply Google âCZURâ
- Click âDownload Softwareâ located at right top corner.
- Select the model for your device.
- Move your mouse to the red square to select Windows or Mac, then click Download Button for your area. For example, âEuropeâ version for downloading.
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Patented Book Curve Flattening TechnologyThe patented book curve flatening technology scans virtually over the bevels and bumps of bound books, flattening the curves so no shadows or distortion appear in the digitized version. | Convert Scanned Images to Editable FilesThe OCR (Optimal Character Recognition) technology can convert your scanned images to editable files. Digitze, search and edit your files in one place. All of your scanned documents can be converted to editable WordãPDFãTIFF and Excel via OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function. | Fast & Save TimeCZUR Document Scanner revolutionizes scanning experience by bringing simple, intelligent and fast scanning performance. All books, magazines, contracts and any paper documents within A3 size can be scanned directly without cutting or unbinding at the speed of 1.5s/page. | Keep Real
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Weight: | 4.72 kg |
Dimensions: | 37.5 x 22 x 39 cm; 4.72 Kilograms |
Brand: | Czur |
Model: | ET-18 Pro |
Colour: | ET18 Pro |
Batteries Included: | No |
Manufacture: | Czur |
Colour: | ET18 Pro |
Verpackung edel wie bei Apple…
Installation war problemlos.
Habe erst mit Nutzung begonnen. Rasche Auskunft zu Frage nach Windows11
Bin begeistert. Die Seitenlichtkorrektur bringts. Macht sehr professionellen Gesamteindruck!
Ho comprato questo scanner per il mio ufficio, si era rotto il nostro vecchio scanner e scansionavamo momentaneamente tutto con le app per il cellulare, neanche a dirvi che qualit scadente che avevano i nostri file. La risoluzione invece qui ottima.
Posso dirvi che sono rimasta piacevolmente colpita dalla facilit d’uso di questo scanner, usato in ufficio anche dai miei colleghi meno tecnologici, nonostante appena l’hanno visto arrivare si erano gi preoccupati, forse per le grandi dimensioni, che appunto un po’ ingombrante quindi direi non adatto per uso domestico, a meno che non si abbia uno studio.
Sicuramente una delle qualit che mi ha indotto a comprare questo rispetto ad altri stata la “Tecnologia Brevettata di Levigatura Delle Curve” di cui avevo letto in descrizione e che era per me una qualit assolutamente necessaria, in quanto con lo scanner in ufficio ogni volta avevo il problema delle pieghe nei documenti, che oltre a darmi fastidio visivo, per certi documenti era davvero un problema. Confermo che la tecnologia funziona e le scansioni vengono senza pieghe.
Ottima la funzione wifi per inviare direttamente al cellulare le scansioni effettuate, eliminando qualche passaggio futile di invio tipo scanner – pc – cellulare. Ci troviamo spesso a dover scansionare e inviare contratti ai clienti e collegando lo scanner al telefono aziendale tutto velocissimo.
Il software dello scanner, molto intuitivo tra l’altro, consente di apportare diverse modifiche ai file scansionati, possibile ritagliare, regolare la nitidezza, il contrasto e altre varie, dopo la scansione. Insomma i file scansionati risultano perfettamente leggibili, al pari degli originali.
Nota di merito per il packaging, oltre ad essere ben imballato e a prova di urto, la confezione dello scanner molto elegante, oltre ad avere in dotazione anche la strumentazione per aprirlo, c’ un taglierino incluso, che non mi sarei mai aspettata di trovarci dentro. In generale imballato benissimo, quindi non abbiate paura degli urti da trasporto.
In generale in ufficio pareri positivi da tutti, lo usiamo giornalmente per scansionare contratti vari, e nessuno si finora lamentato.
Acquisto utile per l’ufficio ed esperienza d’acquisto molto positiva.
In ufficio da anni stiamo digitalizzando tutti gli archivi, un lavoro molto lungo che dobbiamo fare con attenzione, fino ad oggi abbiamo utilizzato il classico scanner delle stampanti con ADF e degli scanner documentali (comodi e veloci), tuttavia queste due soluzioni diventano scomode quando i documenti da scansionare hanno dimensioni differenti, graffette, clips e pieghe, anzi nel caso delle graffette il rischio anche quello di non notarle ed alla lunga passando nei rulli dello scanner lo rovinano. Per questo motivo mi sono messo alla ricerca di uno scanner documentale alternativo ed ho puntato su questo modello.
Parto con il dire che l’imballaggio di prim’ordine, non mi era mai capitato di trovare assieme allo scatolone il taglierino per aprirlo, inoltre la valigetta che contiene lo scanner e tutti i suoi accessori ben fatta e comoda per il trasporto.
Lo scanner non piccolo, sulla scrivania impegna almeno un 53×60 cm, il solo tappetino misura 53×40 cm. i vari cavi tra cui l’alimentazione, tasto da scrivania, tasto a pedale, cavo USB hanno tutti una lunghezza adeguata per arrivare dove serve. Il materiale con cui realizzato metallo quasi totalmente rivestito con una finitura gommata di colore nero opaco e piacevole al tatto, l’impressione quella di un oggetto di qualit. In merito al modulo led aggiuntivo segnalo che si innesta magneticamente allo scanner e lo stesso pu essere rimosso se necessario, lo scanner ha gi di suo una bella illuminazione led dimmerabile.
Nella confezione si trova ovviamente anche il cd che contiene il manuale di istruzioni in diverse lingue tra cui l’italiano ed il suo software che una volta installato consiglia di scaricare gli aggiornamenti, si dovr anche inserire il codice seriale che si trova impresso nella parte inferiore dello scanner.
Il software in lingua italiana, apparentemente sembra complicato ma dopo pochi minuti di utilizzo si comprendono le varie funzioni che sono davvero tante e profonde. E’ dotato anche di una modalit presentazione in cui sullo schermo del pc si vede cosa sta riprendendo lo scanner in tempo reale come fosse una telecamera, la stessa funzione viene svolta dal piccolo display posizionato sullo scanner. Come dicevo le funzioni e le modalit di scansione sono parecchie ed ognuno deve trovare quella che pi fa al caso suo, nel mio caso dopo svariati tentativi ho optato per la scansione di un area circoscritta da me ed in bianco e nero, ho attivato la modalit automatica che scansiona il foglio ogni volta che rileva che ho cambiato pagina, pi o meno impiega poco pi di un secondo, anche la modalit a pedale o tasto comunque comoda.
Di default il software salva la scansione in formato jpg e poi si pu convertire anche massivamente tutto i svariati formati OCR e non come pdf, word, excel, tiff, txt, a questo proposito conferma che la conversione OCR perfetta e non mi ha sbagliato un colpo.
Non posso dire nulla in merito alla funzione wifi perch fino ad ora non l’ho utilizzata poich prevede che le scansioni finiscano sullo smartphone cosa che attualmente a me non occorre. In conclusione un’apparecchio valido che mi sento di consigliare per un utilizzo professionale o per chi deve scansionare grandi quantit di materiale come libri o fogli, se invece la necessit scansionare due fogli al giorno si fa prima con altri strumenti. Mi auguro di esservi stato utile.
Fa quello che promette, ottimo il software ( anche in italiano ).
La qualit per non paragonabile ad uno scanner piano. Una acquisizione a 275 dpi ( valore predefinito ) corrisponde a circa 150 dpi di un’acquisizione fatta con uno scanner tradizionale.
Per il resto ha un buon rapporto qualit/prezzo.
I’ve only had the scanner for a week or so and I’m pretty impressed with what it can do. It’s not perfect by any means but speed-wise it’s brilliant.
The packaging is really good, with a sturdy cardboard carton with a foam insert to store the scanner when not in use.
Everything is pretty sturdy, though the scanner itself is a little top heavy so will fall forward if you aren’t careful. It can take the odd knock and suffer no ill effects.
Setting up was really easy (Windows 10).
The reason I bought the scanner was to digitize the mass of journals I have lying around. Most of these are A5 and above, some with glossy, full colour pages.
First try with out of the box settings and no top light was pretty poor. No image processing at all, and no splitting of images. Then I realised that the SW package doesn’t resize on the secondary monitor, so the options to choose facing spread were hidden. Once that was sorted every thing was good.
Setting 400DPI produced better capture images and improved OCR. The image quality was nearly as good as I can achieve on a flat bed scanner (300DPI). Exposure across the page isn’t even but other than aesthetics, it doesn’t seem to affect much. I know from past experience that more light isn’t better. Dark room, close the curtains and use low angle lighting.
The CZUR software isn’t perfect. It doesn’t do a 100% perfect job of flattening the image and it sometimes struggles to split a double page correctly, but you can select a rescan.
The OCR isn’t perfect, but I haven’t seen one yet that is. Apparently CZUR use the ABBYY SDK and it works pretty well. Comparing it against my version of ABBYY 12 gave similar results with the same images.
Speed wise it beats every other method I’ve tried before (and I’ve tried a few). Scanning 60 pages and generating a searchable PDF took about 20 minutes. File size was about 40MB with original capture images in the PDF. There are some artefacts (like the faint yellow blobs where the finger cots were).
If I wanted a “perfect” digitized document, I’d be looking to buy a couple of top of the range DSLR cameras, plus lenses and make a rig to hold the pages flat. That’s before taking hours to process the images. But I just want to create a digital version of paper docs in the quickest way possible.
I only really have one gripe. CZUR have decided to use video instructions rather than produce a user manual for the software. I don’t have problem with that, but please drop the background music – you can’t hear the instructions
I came across one of those annoying adverts for a still in development baby brother of this. Normally I’d have ignored it, but this intrigued me so I did some research. Found the new one was a lower resolution than this one, so ignored the one in development and went for this instead. It’s basically a frame with a camera and lamp mounted in the head with a foot pedal or finger switch for initiating the scan. I was impressed with the Apple-like packaging. Very functional, easy to get at. Easy to put everything back in the box for storage. Very useful when there is nowhere (at present) that I can leave it out. The software is straightforward. Still works if sitting in the background. It claims 2 seconds for a scan. Might be a slight exaggeration, but scanning a book I could not turn over the pages fast enough. This evening I scanned two books, one 460 pages and the other 424. It took one episode of New Tricks (about an hour). It will scan both pages of a spread in a book and save as two separate images. It will measure the curl on a page and correct for it. It’s not perfect, but it is impressive. I’ve also been scanning the archives of our village hall. Some of the material was rolled up into bundles and tied up. Not easy to get flat, so more suitable for a flatbed scanner? A bit of quick thinking and I used a perspex sheet to flatten the paper. Reflection from the overhead lamp? Turned it off and used the side lamp (that’s the horizontal bar you can see in the image). I am very pleased with it. It doesn’t completely do away with the need of a flat-bed scanner, but it does come close.
The Czur ET18 Pro scanner is both identified and priced as a “Pro” grade solution to anyone who needs to convert paper documents to electronic form. This is a compact, ergonomically sound device that will fit on almost any desk [the biggest constraint being one with the space to allow the scanning mat to sit flat]. It is trivially easy to operate – especially with the provided foot pedal and operationally is a joy to use. For anyone with a large or on-going amount of material that needs to be scanned, this might be a perfect choice… As I often do with reviews, here are a few plus/minus points for consideration:-
Pros:-
1. Excellent build quality. Tough injection-molded body [not sure if it is drop-proof, mind] and really excellent assembly. Controls and switches have a positive, tactile feel; this device is nice to work with.
2. Excellent shipping materials – well laid out and generally perfect to survive transit. Worth hanging on to.
3. Fantastic, absolutely *fantastic* scan quality. Even with browned, slightly dog-eared, 40-year-old material, this scanner returns excellent image quality. The inclusion of “extra”, bright-white LEDs certainly help to ensure excellent image quality.
4. Remarkably effective OCR quality. A side-by-side comparison with using the scanner built in to my Epson XP-950 and a copy of OmniPage 18 results in the Czur winning hands down. Really, it runs rings around OmniPage. No idea why – although the ability of laser-profiling the page before scanning and then the clever software to “virtually flatten” the scan is certainly a big part of this.
5. Quick – although certainly not as quick as claimed… I’ve scanned 31 documents totalling some 560 pages, then OCR-scanned and saved, in 2 hours 20 minutes. This really is crazy-fast in comparison with say a flat-bed scanner.
6. Silent. *Completely* silent – there are no moving parts [save for the click of the activate buttons]. Unlike flat-bed scanners, which often have noisy servo-motors, this is *completely* silent. After a couple of hours, that’s a joy.
7. Ergonomically friendly… quite possible to sit comfortably in front of a desk and just turn the pages of a book and click, page at a time. Scans will take a double-page spread effortlessly.
Cons:-
1. The cables provided with this “professional-grade” machine are too short – one metre or less. The foot-pedal cable barely reached the floor, even with the scanner 10cm from the edge of my desk… I had to move my PC close enough for the cable to reach…
2. OK, this is going to sound a bit silly, but… this thing is *so* fast, it is easy to “get ahead of yourself” and take an image of your hand turning pages. Easy to back up, delete and go forward though.
3. The software could do with a little more polish. Some functions are non-intuitive [for example the main panel includes an “Export” function and a “Bulk Operations” function: which one do you pick if you want to bulk-OCR and Export some scanned pages??
Overall sum-up: This is certainly not a cheap solution for anyone who needs to scan large volumes of information, but, oh my goodness, it *is* effective. Today (August 2019) the greatest weaknesses in the product are the short cables [should be easy for Czur to address] and the slightly non-intuitive software.