Software bundled with the scanner includes NewSoft Presto! PageManager 9, Abbyy FineReader 9.0 Sprint, Plustek DI Capture, Plustek DocAction (which lets you program the scan buttons), and the Twain driver, which lets you scan from most any Windows program.

You can scan from the scanner's front panel using any of 9 preset scanning profiles, which are configurable through the DocAction utility. The default scan profiles are PDF Utility (to 300 dpi color searchable PDF); Scan Utility (to JPEG); File Utility (to 300 dpi color image PDF); OCR (reads and opens the document in FineReader); File Utility (to 200 dpi color image PDF); Copy (to print); EMail (JPEG); FTP (JPEG), and File Utility (to 200 dpi grayscale image PDF).

You can toggle between profiles using up and down arrow buttons to the right of the Scan button; the current profile number is shown on a one-character LED display. Once you choose a profile, touching the Scan button will initiate the scan. A sticker is included with the printer, displaying the specs for each of the nine default settings, and with a second column where you can enter your own modifications to them. The sticker's type is fairly small, however, and the blank spaces are thin enough that you'd need to have small handwriting, and there's no room to make corrections.

You can also initiate scans directly from nearly any program that has a scan command, using the included Twain driver. You can scan from PageManager, which lets you open scanned or saved documents in a variety of programs.

Scan Speed and OCR
The SC8016U has different speed ratings depending on what mode you're scanning in. Its 80-page-per-minute (ppm) rating for simplex scanning and 160 ipm (images per minute, where each side of a page counts as one image) for duplex scanning are to 300 dpi grayscale/black and white. In scanning to color at 200 dpi, it is rated at 45 ppm for simplex and 90 ppm for duplex scanning, and in scanning to color at 300 dpi, it is rated at 30 ppm and 60 ipm for simplex and duplex scanning, respectively.

We tested with letter-size paper, for which the fastest scans come when you rotate the page into landscape position in the ADF, and the software corrects the document's orientation automatically.

As this scanner has three different preset profiles for scanning to image PDF (300 dpi color, 200 dpi color, and 200 dpi grayscale) but only one for scanning to searchable PDF (300 dpi color), we did our official testing at 300 dpi color. There, I timed it at 26.8 ppm in simplex and 46.8 ppm in duplex scanning to image PDF, so it lost a modest amount of time when scanning two-sided pages but was still pretty close. When I scanned in 300 dpi color to searchable PDF, however, it finished in a very slow 6 minutes 10 seconds, nearly than 6 times as long as it did to scan to image PDF (1 minute 4 seconds).

I also tried scanning to image PDF at 300 dpi grayscale, the resolution for which it was rated 80 ppm/160 ipm. I timed it at 68.1 ppm and 136.2 ipm in simplex and duplex, respectively, which is impressive because it lost no time in scanning double-sided pages. We time from the moment we hit the scan command until the file is processed and saved, the actual time it took in scanning was probably very close to its rated speed. When I switched to searchable PDF, also at 300 dpi grayscale, it turned in a still lackluster 3:19, compared with just 22 seconds to scan to image PDF.

In testing using FineReader, the SC8016U's OCR performance was about average, reading Times New Roman text down to 10 points and Arial down to 8 points without error.

SPEC DATA:

Plustek SmartOffice SC8016U

Maximum Optical Resolution: 600 pixels

Film Scanning: No

Maximum Scan Area: Tabloid

Scanning Options: Reflective

One-Touch Buttons: Yes

Flatbed: No

Automatic Document Feeder: Yes

USB or FireWire Interface: USB

Ethernet Interface: No

اسکنر پلاستک SmartOffice SC8016U

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