Manufacturer | CZUR |
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Brand | CZUR |
Item Weight | 4.4 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 14.26 x 13.83 x 5.87 inches |
Item model number | ET16 plus |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Color | ET 16Plus |
Size | ET 16Plus |
Sheet Size | A3 |
Manufacturer Part Number | ET Series |
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CZUR ET16 Plus Advanced Book & Document Scanner, 2nd Gen Auto-Flatten&Deskew Tech, 16MP Camera, Capture A3, 186 Languages OCR, Convert to PDF/Searchable PDF/Word/Tiff/Excel, Run On Windows&MacOS
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Media Type | Business Card |
Scanner Type | Book, Document |
Brand | CZUR |
Model Name | ET16 Plus |
Connectivity Technology | USB |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 14.26 x 13.83 x 5.87 inches |
Resolution | 4608*3456 |
Item Weight | 2 Kilograms |
Sheet Size | A3 |
Light Source Type | LED |
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- 📖【Patented Flattening Curved Book Page Technology】Work with macOS 10.11 or later AND Windows XP/7/8/10/11. ET16 Plus applies CZUR’s latest technology to flatten the 3D curved surface after pixel transformation to complete flattening of the book page.
- 📖【16MP HD Camera, Easy and Fast】Embedded 16MP HD Camera and with the 1.5 S/P scanning speed, ET16 Plus can easily finish scanning a 300 page book within 10 min, which is 10 times faster than traditional scanner.
- 📖【Capable of scanning multiple items】Books & Binder Documents, Business Cards and Vouchers and even Physical Objects. *Note: Very glare papers are NOT recommended.
- 📖【10 LED Lights +2 Supplemental Lights】sufficient light exposure, making scanning document shadowless, for best scanning results.
- 📖【Life Free OCR Software + 1 Year Warranty】Life-time FREE SOFTERWARE, able to read 186 languages, allowing you to edit your scanned materials right after scan (crop, adjust sharpness, contrast, thickness, etc). Any materials can be converted into EDITABLE PDF,WORD,TIFF and automatically stored. You can even use our SOFTWARE convert and edit imported document materials. For an open book, the software can automatically separate or combine the 2 open pages after scan
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Color | ET 16Plus | ET18 Pro | Black | Aura-B | ET16-P | Aura X Pro |
Connectivity Technology | USB | USB | USB | USB | USB | USB |
Item Dimensions | 14.26 x 13.83 x 5.87 inches | 14.26 x 13.81 x 5.87 inches | 8.27 x 6.14 x 15.08 inches | 7.08 x 5.11 x 17.44 inches | 14.25 x 13.81 x 5.86 inches | 7.09 x 5.12 x 17.05 inches |
Item Weight | 4.41 lbs | 4.41 lbs | 6.61 lbs | 3.31 lbs | 4.40 lbs | 4.80 lbs |
Operating System | Mac OS X, Windows 10 | Windows, Mac | Windows, Mac | Windows and MacOS | Windows & MacOS | — |
Product Description

Unlike any other traditional scanners, CZUR ET16 PLUS revolutionizes your scanning experience by bringing simple, intelligent and fast scanning performance. All books, magazines, contracts and any paper documents within size A3 (Note: Due to reflectivity of materials with glossy surface, scanning result might be affected) can be scanned directly without cutting or unbinding at the speed of 1.5s/page. The CZUR ET16 PLUS is also capable of scanning physical objects such as sculptures. All of your scanned documents can be converted to editable Word/PDF/TIFF or JPG via OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function.

CZUR ET16 Plus Professional Book Scanner, Smart Document Scanner
ET16 Plus offers word-class performance for high digitization requirement organizations, designing for situations where efficiency and convenience are the top priority. Embrace one sleek and incredibly compact unit for all your document scanning needs: in color, black & white or greyscale at swift speeds and faultless quality. Applied the breakthrough technology- 2nd Gen Laser Curve-Flattening, ET16 Plus provides tremendous curve page flattening ability and ultra fast (1.5s/p) scanning speed. Smart Combining and Separating pages at your disposal.
*CZUR ET16 Plus is connected by USB*

Patented Flattening Curved Book Page Technology
ET16 Plus applies CZUR’s latest technology. ET16 Plus emits 3 laser beams, forming horizontal laser lines on curved page. By computing the angles at the intersection between the laser beams and the scanning platform, a 3D spatial curve of the laser lines can be obtained. Finally flatten the 3D curved surface after pixel transformation to complete flattening of the book page.
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Used for remote working and learningCompatible with Zoom,enables a user to instantly share screen. Allows you to annotate, highlight, scroll or click on the screen, enabling you to demonstrate the items on display. Widely used by individuals, students and working professionals for online teaching&meeting. Screen sharing solutions is a way to stay connected. |
How to share CZUR software screen on Zoom1. Open CZUR software → Click “Scan”. Make sure your device can run normally as you could see the screen with things that you are going to share or view. 2. Open Zoom and Joined or started a meeting. 3. Selecting Integrated Camera instead of CZUR’s Camera on Start Video module. 4. Click “Share Screen” on Zoom and select “CZUR Scanner” screen for sharing. |
Using Annotation tools while screen sharing
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1.Go to CZUR website by simply Google ’CZUR’ 2.Click ’Download Software’ located at right top corner. |
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4. Move your mouse to the red square to select Windows or Mac, then click Download Button for your area. For example, ’North America’ version for downloading. |

Innovative Side Lighting
Patented side lights evenly reveal the whole document for a precise, balanced scan, while eliminating glare from glossy pages, such as certificates, magazines and laminated documents.

Up to A3 format coverage
Equipped with 18-MegaPixel Sony HD camera, CZUR ET 18 provides high quality scanning results with up to A3 format coverage.
Scanning artworks, test papers, children's homework can never be eaiser.
High time to build your own digitial library and gallery.

Efficient OCR
Powered by ABBYY technology, CZUR ET smart scanner recognizes 186 languages. In only one click, you can easily convert any scanned pages to editable document (Word/ PDF/ TIFF all available).

Dual-Page Scan in 1.5s
The ET Smart Book Scanner is powered by a robust 32-bit MIPS CPU, scanning two pages of an open, unbound books in just 1.5s. Scan 80-page bound document in a single minute, nearly 10x faster than a traditional scanner.

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ASIN | B01H2YCN24 |
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Best Sellers Rank | #90,273 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products) #133 in Document Scanners #1,017 in Unique Home |
Date First Available | June 15, 2016 |
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The major time consumption in digitizing is NOT the scan time, it is the cleanup time.
This will depend on the quality and sophistication of the original and how good you want the book to look and what device you want to read the book on.
Old books or books with lots of tables, illustrations or symbols (like math, polytonic Greek, extensive footnoting) are likely to produce marginal results that require extensive cleanup.
The scanning might take 12 minutes, the cleanup might take 12 hours. If you anticipate commercial distribution, it could take several days.
Your expectation and usage plans make the difference. If all you want is readability of skewed pages and no searchability on a desktop PC, CZUR will deliver quickly.
Most e-ink readers like Kindle, Kobo, Nook, etc will do very poorly with a pdf file and much better with epub or mobi searchable formats.
Searchable also means speakable, the text-to-speech feature of readers will function as expected only when documents are in OCR format.
It is much easier (and less desirable) to achieve a non-searchable image view than a searchable OCR view depending on who will use the scanned output and how professional you want it to look.
The auto-repositioning of images feature of CZUR has limited accuracy and if you want clean image based pages that look straight and well marginated to the human eye, you will need to hand crop and rotate the images. This takes time.
The CSUR will correct the rotation of pages to within two or three degrees of straightness, the offset is easily visible when it is present.
The type of layered pdf file where you can both see the original page image and simultaneously search the underlying textual characters is a format beneath it is not generated by the CZUR software.
That layered format is the quick and dirty way that the google book project and high end unattended robotic digitizers achieve fast results.
No human supervised spell check is performed and consequently hundreds, even thousands of errors remain hidden from the person reading the book.
You only see those errors if you can export the document into .epub or .docx format to pass it through software with slow human mediated spell checking.
OCR machine spell checking often misrenders the images it sees. The image of a distorted "O" may render as (] or (j ,may render as "O". Italicized letters like b,h, rn and cl are especially vulnerable to confused interpretation. Letters or words may be randomly italicized or bolded by mistake.
The presence of page numbers or page headers/footers may interfere with your intended purpose and may have to be manually removed.
An index set in extra small type (eg 6pt) may end up as mostly human readable, but chopped up in a confusing format and randomly misspelled. Many of your lower case "e" letters can turn into "c".
Expectations realized with CZUR scanner:
High scan rate
Better than average resolution
A set of JPEG files that may be loaded into other higher quality OCR software
Thumbprint removal happens most of the time, but is quirky--very unpredictable and the erasure eats into the page past the actual size of the thumb image sometimes chopping into words by removing leading or trailing letters.
Virtually non-existant documentation
Expectations N OT realized with image CZUR output:
Uniform margins
Straight untilted pages that are not distracting to the eye
Quality rendering of half-tone photos
Automatic contrast detection may create background color drift
Expectations NOT realized with OCRd CZUR output:
Quality rendering of half-tone photos
Rapid OCR and accurate human mediated post processing
The amazon product listing mentions a bundle with ABBYY which was not present with the shipped unit.
No matter how you slice it, book digitizing takes time and the better you want it to look, the more TIME it takes.
In some ways the CZUR is a revolutionary packaged device for high book scan rates at a consumer-oriented price.
But it does not quicken the time-consuming postprocessing aspect of digitization production.
If you already own a very high-resolution 20MP camera you might achieve a similar outcome with third party software like booksorber.
The absence of any meaningful documentation on such a sophisticated product is inexcusable and reason enough to return it in my view.
On the other hand if your computer skills are self-taught by trial and error, this may be just the product for you.
So in the end, just how fussy are you when you read the printed page, ie the distortion distraction factor? How much mental and physical energy are you willing to invest keeping things tidy?
This review is based on personally digitizing several challenging books, but just doing a hardbound novel would be a piece of cake, doing poetry or a mass market paperback is a bear.
My sense of this software [from a former developer] is that it is still at beta level, not enough features and definitely not up to an ADA certification audit, the type is too small and the contrast is loo low unless you have young eyeballs. To my senior eyeballs the screen has an uncomfortable washed out fuzzy look and is functionally at less than ten percent what you would find in the freebie Paint program that comes free with windows.
There is a similar order of magnitude difference between the free copy of Omnipage that comes with a low end Canon flatbed scanner and the inability CZUR to allow for human mediated corrections.
Sometimes the automatic image "correction" makes the image worse rather than better producing a very wavy baseline effect for lines of text.
Sales claim:"Quickly book to ebook (Less than 3 mins for a 200 pages book)" After some practice, I would not attempt to scan a 200 page book in less than 30mins with this product just for the scan alone for a simple book.
If you try the CZUR ET16 you will have a chance to answer such issues from personal experience. If you do decide to take the plunge, here are some tips:
There are lots of youtube ET16 tutorials & tips better than the ones on the CZUR site, like those from D&H Innovation & John Willis & E-Z photo scan.
If you are editing an image and want to rotate it, you can press the right and left arrow keys on the keyboard to go clockwise and counterclockwise by one degree in the rotate tool..
Make sure the book is dead center in the viewfinder, serious parallax distortions result from items placed near an edge because the camera is so close to the page.
If you accidentally scan the same pages twice, you can just delete the extra images without have to renumber anything, the same is true of deleting blank pages.
Some users that digitize glossy pages prefer a light shield box or shield for better results, others do their scanning in a dark room, lighting can be critical for the reflections from coated stock.
Interacting with "support" is fast and easy, their reply will be "Thanks for your question, watch our videos several times, have a nice day."
Assume you will end up buying either OmniPage Pro or ABBYY Pro if you expect to do any serious work, both can import folders full of images from the CZUR.
Also assume you will have to make several cleanup passes for top notch results, one for human-mediated OCR, one for duplicate or missing pages, one for a word processor spell check, one for page aesthetics including margination and justification, and a set of searches of OCR misread trigger words like arid,arc, riot, sonic, clay, yon, ina, docs, tip, nay, and hut.
And of course the final test is actually reading the book for ugly surprises, even if all you do is read one or two chapters you will learn funky things that will repeat all through the book that you can search for.
As pretty as the packaging is, the bottom line costwise is that this item will set you back about twice what I am willing to pay considering the very low cost of a Sony 20 mp cameras and the weak software.
The unit was returned until the price/product usability becomes more realistic. Other options are way more attractive to me. A user friendly product would require a total rewrite and a clear, complete manual.
First, I would like to clarify the issue with abrupt exit of the software during my previous test. It appears that the Czur windows application can't work in Parallel virtual machine. This has been confirmed by Czur tech support. Now they have Mac software, this issue no longer exist.
Second, the issue with scanning glossy paper has also been greatly improved after they offered two LED lights and the proper instructions of using them. As long as you turn of the LED lights on the main device, by using the two stand alone LED lights. The quality of scanned glossy paper actually is pretty awesome. Scanning regular book with these two LED lights also have improved quality.
Third, the quality of the LCD in the machine has also improved, I no longer see any vertical lines on the LCD. Overall, it's a solid build machine with small foot print. The Mac software of course still has bugs, I have offered suggestion for improvement. Hope you guys will enjoy the product, and check out the new images I uploaded with annotation.
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It’s a great idea to have a product like this. I wish some of my books could be converted to PDF files by using this product. It is promising from what I saw on YouTube. So I ordered one from Amazon to test it. Unfortunately, both the hardware and software are half finished and can’t live up to its promise.
Hardware - Cons:
1. The device’s WiFi mode does not support 5G Hz wireless band, it only supports the 2.4G Hz band. The device recognizes and displays the 5G band network on its mini LCD screen, which makes me think it supports 5G network. However, it was only able to connect to the 2.4G network after several failures on the 5G network.
2. The onboard TFT screen is cheap, you can clearly see several vertical lines on the screen, which is annoying.
3. No WiFi mode for PC connection. To use the PC mode, you must connect the device using a USB cable. To scan a book, you really need the PC software rather than the Czur Cloud app.
4. You can’t scan too fast. In the wifi mode, once you click “scan”, you have to wait for the images to be saved/uploaded first with wifi LED light blinking blue. Once the light become steadily green, you can scan the next one.
5. There is no progress indicator on the device LCD screen or the Czur Cloud app. So sometimes after clicking the “scan” button, you don’t know whether the scan is successful or not until you confirm it on the Czur Cloud app.
6. You need to wear some thumb cover to let the device know that those are actually thumbs, and should be removed after scanning.
7. The Zoom In and Zoom Out button is designed for presentation mode only. In other words, the camera lens can’t be Zoomed In/Out during the Scan mode. You may not want to, but it is confusing.
Software – Cons:
1. The software is buggy. To use the PC software, I connected the device by using the USB cable. However, I was never able to start scanning successfully. As soon as I clicked “scan”, a black window splashed for a second then the whole software abruptly exited. I tried multiple times, the same problem persists. So I was not able to scan a book at all.
2. The Czur Cloud app on iPhone does not support “delete” function. You can only delete scanned documents by logging into the Cloud web, the “delete” function is not obvious or intuitive on the Cloud web either.
3. The device only supports the Czur Cloud service. And the Czur Cloud app does not integrate with other popular cloud services such Dropbox or iCloud or anything else.
4. The built-in OCR function is a joke.
5. The device is not that smart. It scans better when the document has a full page white background, otherwise it distorts things or cut things/edges – sometimes very bad (see the images I uploaded.)
6. The PC software only supports PC. In other words, the powerful software they developed is designed for Windows only. The Czur Cloud app works on mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad, but it is really only optimized for phones. The Czur Cloud app on iPhone offers limited functions.
7. It captures files in jpg format, not PDF unless you use the PC software.
Pros: The idea is good, it looks good.
Summary: The product definitely needs to be improved. Currently it can’t compete with the traditional two-side scanner in terms of speed, quality and price. A fixed camera with proper lighting can capture the same images as the device does. You simply need a better image processing software to handle those images. Adobe Acrobat can do the job well.

First, I would like to clarify the issue with abrupt exit of the software during my previous test. It appears that the Czur windows application can't work in Parallel virtual machine. This has been confirmed by Czur tech support. Now they have Mac software, this issue no longer exist.
Second, the issue with scanning glossy paper has also been greatly improved after they offered two LED lights and the proper instructions of using them. As long as you turn of the LED lights on the main device, by using the two stand alone LED lights. The quality of scanned glossy paper actually is pretty awesome. Scanning regular book with these two LED lights also have improved quality.
Third, the quality of the LCD in the machine has also improved, I no longer see any vertical lines on the LCD. Overall, it's a solid build machine with small foot print. The Mac software of course still has bugs, I have offered suggestion for improvement. Hope you guys will enjoy the product, and check out the new images I uploaded with annotation.
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It’s a great idea to have a product like this. I wish some of my books could be converted to PDF files by using this product. It is promising from what I saw on YouTube. So I ordered one from Amazon to test it. Unfortunately, both the hardware and software are half finished and can’t live up to its promise.
Hardware - Cons:
1. The device’s WiFi mode does not support 5G Hz wireless band, it only supports the 2.4G Hz band. The device recognizes and displays the 5G band network on its mini LCD screen, which makes me think it supports 5G network. However, it was only able to connect to the 2.4G network after several failures on the 5G network.
2. The onboard TFT screen is cheap, you can clearly see several vertical lines on the screen, which is annoying.
3. No WiFi mode for PC connection. To use the PC mode, you must connect the device using a USB cable. To scan a book, you really need the PC software rather than the Czur Cloud app.
4. You can’t scan too fast. In the wifi mode, once you click “scan”, you have to wait for the images to be saved/uploaded first with wifi LED light blinking blue. Once the light become steadily green, you can scan the next one.
5. There is no progress indicator on the device LCD screen or the Czur Cloud app. So sometimes after clicking the “scan” button, you don’t know whether the scan is successful or not until you confirm it on the Czur Cloud app.
6. You need to wear some thumb cover to let the device know that those are actually thumbs, and should be removed after scanning.
7. The Zoom In and Zoom Out button is designed for presentation mode only. In other words, the camera lens can’t be Zoomed In/Out during the Scan mode. You may not want to, but it is confusing.
Software – Cons:
1. The software is buggy. To use the PC software, I connected the device by using the USB cable. However, I was never able to start scanning successfully. As soon as I clicked “scan”, a black window splashed for a second then the whole software abruptly exited. I tried multiple times, the same problem persists. So I was not able to scan a book at all.
2. The Czur Cloud app on iPhone does not support “delete” function. You can only delete scanned documents by logging into the Cloud web, the “delete” function is not obvious or intuitive on the Cloud web either.
3. The device only supports the Czur Cloud service. And the Czur Cloud app does not integrate with other popular cloud services such Dropbox or iCloud or anything else.
4. The built-in OCR function is a joke.
5. The device is not that smart. It scans better when the document has a full page white background, otherwise it distorts things or cut things/edges – sometimes very bad (see the images I uploaded.)
6. The PC software only supports PC. In other words, the powerful software they developed is designed for Windows only. The Czur Cloud app works on mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad, but it is really only optimized for phones. The Czur Cloud app on iPhone offers limited functions.
7. It captures files in jpg format, not PDF unless you use the PC software.
Pros: The idea is good, it looks good.
Summary: The product definitely needs to be improved. Currently it can’t compete with the traditional two-side scanner in terms of speed, quality and price. A fixed camera with proper lighting can capture the same images as the device does. You simply need a better image processing software to handle those images. Adobe Acrobat can do the job well.















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Schnell ist der ET16 aufgestellt. Die nötige Software und die schmale Gebrauchsanweisung lädt man sich über die Site des chinesischen Herstellers.
Viel ist nicht einzustellen. Ich wählte das Beste überall. Überraschenderweise war das nirgendwo viel. Trotzdem erwartete ich große Dateien und hochwertige Ergebnisse.
Der Hersteller wirbt mit der Möglichkeit einer Digitalisierung der eigenen Bibliothek.
Ein Buch mit 300 Seiten ist tatsächlich schnell gescannt. Nur eine Stunde brauchte ich für mein erstes Buch, inklusiv die komplette Verarbeitung der Scans. Dabei war es mit einfachem Umblättern zwischen den Scans wahrlich nicht getan.
Gerade dicke Bücher wölben sich sehr. Man muss ihre Seiten anpressen, damit die Scans lesbar sind. Hierzu verwendet man gelbe Plastikhilfen von CZUR, die wie Ringe zu tragen sind. Sie sind mit speziellen Markierungen versehen. Die Software rechnet sie bei der Erzeugung der Scan-Bilder meistens heraus. Für den Träger der Ringe beginnt nach etwa 150 Seiten an den jeweiligen Fingern ein gewisser Schmerz. Zum Glück kommt man selten so weit.
Oft nämlich muss die Lage des Buchs der Achse des Scanners angepasst werden. Diese Achse wird auf dem Kontrollbildschirm in Form einer Linie dargestellt. Man verschiebt sein Buch also oft und setzt den Scan erst wieder fort, wenn man die Mittellinie des Buchs und die virtuelle Achse des Scanners exakt übereinander gebracht hat.
Dünne oder oft gelesene Bücher blättert man übrigens einfach um. Keine Nachjustierung, kein Anpressen. Der Scanner registriert das und scannt automatisch zum genau richtigen Zeitpunkt los.
Erzeugt wird pro Buchseite genau eine JPG-Datei.
Die JPG-Dateien lassen sich beschneiden. Kleine kosmetische Veränderungen sind möglich.
Exportiert wird danach eine PDF-, eine TIFF-, oder eine DOCX-Datei. Der Scanner taugt etwas für treue Liebhaber von Microsofts Word. Soviel sei jetzt schon gesagt.
Denn die mit jedweder Einstellung erzeugten PDF- und TIFF-Dateien sind fast unlesbar. In ihnen enthaltene Texte lassen sich zwar mit weiterer Software gut bearbeiten. Für das menschliche Auge eignen sie sich aber ebensowenig, wie für ein OCR-Programm.
Der Fine Reader OCR von Abby etwa rügt die zu niedrige Auflösung. Seine zunächst überraschende Empfehlung, mit einer Einstellung von mindestens 300 dpi zu scannen, weist auf das größte Problem des CZUR ET16 Plus hin: Jede Einstellung ist sinnlos. Man kann hohe Auflösung zwar vorgeben. Der Scanner und seine Software halten sich aber nicht daran.
Fazit: vermutlich gut gewollt
Der Scanner CZUR ET16 Plus ist bei Weitem nicht auf der Höhe der Zeit. Er scannt in unbrauchbar niedriger Auflösung. Voreinstellungen und Resultat stimmen überhaupt nicht überein. Mit der Anfang 2019 ausgelieferten Software und Firmware taugt er zur Digitalisierung von Büchern nicht.


Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 13, 2019
Schnell ist der ET16 aufgestellt. Die nötige Software und die schmale Gebrauchsanweisung lädt man sich über die Site des chinesischen Herstellers.
Viel ist nicht einzustellen. Ich wählte das Beste überall. Überraschenderweise war das nirgendwo viel. Trotzdem erwartete ich große Dateien und hochwertige Ergebnisse.
Der Hersteller wirbt mit der Möglichkeit einer Digitalisierung der eigenen Bibliothek.
Ein Buch mit 300 Seiten ist tatsächlich schnell gescannt. Nur eine Stunde brauchte ich für mein erstes Buch, inklusiv die komplette Verarbeitung der Scans. Dabei war es mit einfachem Umblättern zwischen den Scans wahrlich nicht getan.
Gerade dicke Bücher wölben sich sehr. Man muss ihre Seiten anpressen, damit die Scans lesbar sind. Hierzu verwendet man gelbe Plastikhilfen von CZUR, die wie Ringe zu tragen sind. Sie sind mit speziellen Markierungen versehen. Die Software rechnet sie bei der Erzeugung der Scan-Bilder meistens heraus. Für den Träger der Ringe beginnt nach etwa 150 Seiten an den jeweiligen Fingern ein gewisser Schmerz. Zum Glück kommt man selten so weit.
Oft nämlich muss die Lage des Buchs der Achse des Scanners angepasst werden. Diese Achse wird auf dem Kontrollbildschirm in Form einer Linie dargestellt. Man verschiebt sein Buch also oft und setzt den Scan erst wieder fort, wenn man die Mittellinie des Buchs und die virtuelle Achse des Scanners exakt übereinander gebracht hat.
Dünne oder oft gelesene Bücher blättert man übrigens einfach um. Keine Nachjustierung, kein Anpressen. Der Scanner registriert das und scannt automatisch zum genau richtigen Zeitpunkt los.
Erzeugt wird pro Buchseite genau eine JPG-Datei.
Die JPG-Dateien lassen sich beschneiden. Kleine kosmetische Veränderungen sind möglich.
Exportiert wird danach eine PDF-, eine TIFF-, oder eine DOCX-Datei. Der Scanner taugt etwas für treue Liebhaber von Microsofts Word. Soviel sei jetzt schon gesagt.
Denn die mit jedweder Einstellung erzeugten PDF- und TIFF-Dateien sind fast unlesbar. In ihnen enthaltene Texte lassen sich zwar mit weiterer Software gut bearbeiten. Für das menschliche Auge eignen sie sich aber ebensowenig, wie für ein OCR-Programm.
Der Fine Reader OCR von Abby etwa rügt die zu niedrige Auflösung. Seine zunächst überraschende Empfehlung, mit einer Einstellung von mindestens 300 dpi zu scannen, weist auf das größte Problem des CZUR ET16 Plus hin: Jede Einstellung ist sinnlos. Man kann hohe Auflösung zwar vorgeben. Der Scanner und seine Software halten sich aber nicht daran.
Fazit: vermutlich gut gewollt
Der Scanner CZUR ET16 Plus ist bei Weitem nicht auf der Höhe der Zeit. Er scannt in unbrauchbar niedriger Auflösung. Voreinstellungen und Resultat stimmen überhaupt nicht überein. Mit der Anfang 2019 ausgelieferten Software und Firmware taugt er zur Digitalisierung von Büchern nicht.











Mein Scanner schafft es inzwischen (nach 8 Wochen) nicht mehr, ein A4-Blatt zu erkennen und einen exakten Scanrahmen zu erzeugen. Der Frame springt wild herum. Nach etlichen Mails und vielen, vielen Tests, konnte ich herausfinden, daß Fremdlicht das Problem ist, wobei sich diese Überempfindlichkeit zunehmend verschlimmert hat. Zwischenzeitlich funktionierte das Framing nur noch bei geschlossener Jalousie, inzwischen nur noch nachts und Deckenbeleuchtung aus. Die Tips vom Support, Linse putzen und das schwarze Pad reinigen, waren unnötig, habe ich trotzdem versucht, natürlich ohne Erfolg.
Die Mails an den Support nach China werden innerhalb eines Werktags beantwortet (englisch), allerdings hilft mir das inzwischen auch nicht weiter.
Ich warte nun auf die Beantwortung meiner Bitte um Garantietausch, denn dieses Verhalten ist sicher nicht normal.
Falls der Garantietausch gut und schnell über die Bühne geht, werde ich dies hier schreiben und die Bewertung erhöhen, wenn nicht, dann war der Scanner ein teuerer Reinfall, was ich dann ebenfalls entsprechend bewerten muss. Es wäre schade darum, denn das Gerät und die Software wären wirklich in Ordnung, wenn das Framing der Seiten nur funktionieren würde. Daß das perfekt geht, konnte man beim allerersten Test sehen, seitdem spinnt das Gerät leider immer mehr.

Consigliato a chi non ha necessità di scansire testi rilegati con immagini colorate. Per tutti gli altri, uno scanner piano (a 300 dpi) ci impiegherà più tempo ma farà il suo lavoro.
P.S. ottimo customer care, rispondono in lingua inglese e sono molto esaustivi. Mi hanno confermato prontamente che la macchina è ottimizzata per scansioni testuali dunque la resa non può esser superiore a quella che ho ottenuto con le immagini.

These are software issues and I hope and wish the cZur developers address these ASAP.

Overall great machine.