CZUR Aura Pro Book Scanner 14MP HD Camera Cost-effective Document Scanner

Excellent innovative scanning device, beautifully packaged and designed, everything enclosed that's required. Beats trying to scan items like paperback books on a standard printer / scanner device.

Great peice of kit with great, intuitive software. After a few trial scans, I'm au fait with the settings. You need to set the DPI setting to maximum and use the side lights (rather than the main scanner light) to get the optimum results.

Very useful for digitising our village archives. However the supplied software is clunky and could be much more intuitive.

Have scanned dozens of books with this - as an academic looking to convert parts of my library to portable PDF, this was a good buy

A near perfect book scanner. I bought this to scan a number of books, to preserve them for future use. These are documents that are irreplaceable and are getting fragile. One book has pages that are A3 in size, and the scan quality has been fantastic. On these it's not been perfect in flattening (but we are working on a solution), but on the A4 book it has been perfect. Really easy to get the software running, pretty easy to figure out how to use it and quality is perfect for my use. Only other challenge I have had is the power cable isn't quite long enough for me to place the scanner on a suitable desk and then run my laptop alongside - more my issue than the fault of CZUR as I have limited plug sockets. I have good A4 flat bed scanners, which work great on single pages, photo's etc, but dealing with A3 books was always an issue. I now have a really good solution for this.

I feel misled by the marketing of this device. As someone who has spent years working with professional-grade imaging hardware, including Agfa and Hell drum scanners as well as various high-end flatbeds, I can say with confidence: the Czur Aura Pro is NOT a scanner. It is a camera on a stand with very primitive software. The Software Delivery (An Absolute Joke) For a £300 device in the current era, providing software on a CD is unacceptable. Most modern computers haven't had disc drives for over a decade. I was forced to buy an external CD drive just to access the installer, only to find I still had to download a newer version from the internet anyway. To make matters worse, the software is poorly optimized—my system froze for long periods during both the installation and when saving files. For £300, the company should include a £2 USB stick compatible with modern hardware. This device does not function like a true scanner. In a real scanner, you have control over the optical capture. Here, the software doesn't control the hardware; it simply takes a photo and then applies post-processing filters (B&W, color, "stamp," etc.). The promises on paper do not match the reality of the performance. Performance and Usability While this might be a "solution" for someone who needs quick, low-quality snapshots of documents without adjusting parameters, it fails to meet the standards of anyone who understands imaging. The software is cumbersome, and the "automation" feels like a thin veneer over a very basic camera setup. Verdict: 3 stars I'm returning the CD player I had to buy. I'm furious because I've been so disappointed with both the software CD and the online update work software. I thought I could scan in PDF, JPEG, TIFF, etc., but it's not working. I have to spend several extra hours to save everything as a PDF, for example. Yes, I'm disappointed and frustrated. Do I now have to buy new software to save these JPEGs to PDF in bulk?

Way better than I expected. Faster than a domestic flat-bed scanner. Whether you can scan a book or not really depends on the spine. As the scans are only for me, I got thin black gloves and hold the books open and use the foot-pedal. This improved on using my fingers which often resulted in my hand(s) being scanned too, resulting in a lot of post editing. One hard lesson - is never to use the powerful editing tools supplied - on your original scans - there is no "undo". I bought the version with the battery. This enabled my working with the laptop in the garden shed where there is no power for the odd hour (over Christmas). Note that the unit can topple over when used on a rickety table. The base is undercut so the mat can be tucked underneath. But the undercutting goes all the way around the unit base instead of being restricted to just the front (where it is needed) creating an unnecessary instability.

I had to return this. The packaging is as impressive as people say. I found the interface ok, maybe could have been easier but none too challenging (my IT skills are limited). I bought this to copy pictures from various history books but the quality of the photo taken was so poor I compared it to just taking a photo with my iphone camera and the latter was better. I tried two different rooms and types of light. I tried turning on the mini-lights halfway up the stand, all with the same disappointing result. I tried tech support, they replied quickly but with very standard advice (try another room with more light), didn't feel like they had really engaged with the problem. Was I just doing it wrong? We'll never know and as we (including me) have decided as a society to buy everything online we have no shop to pop into to give us a demo.

Before buying this product I used to try and digitize my books using my phone. But it was never very good and pages would be bent and difficult to read & ocr. Thanks to the lasers on this product and the excellent camera you can't even tell that it's a regular book and every page is perfectly flat.

Perfect, het antwoord op mijn zoektocht naar een goede converter! Mooi product!

Possiedo molti libri in casa, e da quando io e mia moglie abbiamo riempito anche l'ultimo angolo della libreria, ci siamo convertiti agli ebook: ce ne stanno centinaia nella memoria del tablet o del cellulare, e si possono quindi portare comodamente con sé (sono pendolare, e durante i viaggi in treno ho molto tempo per leggere). Inoltre, mia moglie soffre di insonnia e la notte per riprendere sonno legge libri sul suo cellulare, evitando di accendere l'abat-jour. Negli ultimi anni abbiamo ri-acquistato dei libri in formato elettronico che già possiedevamo in forma cartacea, proprio per la maggiore comodità di lettura. Ma abbiamo molti libri di edizioni vecchie che non sono mai stati convertiti in digitale, e che da tempo desideravo scansionare io stesso per poterli rileggere, o per effettuare rapidamente ricerche di testo al loro interno. Il nostro vecchio, fedele scanner flatbed, non era adatto allo scopo: ha una qualità dell'immagine eccellente, ma ci vuole troppo tempo per scansionare una singola pagina e passare alla successiva (circa 15 secondi). Sinora avevo rimediato scansionando alcuni libri con una app per cellulari Android, che era sicuramente un po' più rapida del nostro scanner (5–6 secondi a pagina) ma richiedeva un canone di 50€/anno, ogni 40 pagine andava resettata perché il software non riusciva a stare dietro alla scansione, e comunque non forniva risultati eccelsi. Dopo molte indecisioni, mi sono arrischiato ad acquistare questo scanner CZUR Aura Pro, e devo dire di essere soddisfattissimo! Ho dovuto scansionare due o tre libri prima di prenderci la mano, ma ora che ho capito qual è il modo giusto con cui usarlo, riesco a scansionare ben 15 pagine/minuto, e la qualità è ottima, come si vede nell'immagine allegata. Quello che è decisivo è la combinazione di molti fattori: - Due mollette da dita per tenere le pagine ben aperte, con un pattern disegnato su ciascuna di esse che viene riconosciuto dal software e rimosso dalla scansione; - Una coppia di luci laterali che riduce il riflesso (inutile sulla carta normale dei libri, ma indispensabile per prevenire i riflessi della carta lucida usata per le copertine e per certi libri con fotografie); - Una pedaliera per avviare la scansione senza usare le mani, impegnate a tenere aperte le pagine con le mollette; - Un distanziometro laser che ricostruisce il profilo 3D delle pagine, e che corregge la non perfetta planarità delle due facciate di un libro; - Un tappetino nero che aiuta il software a riconoscere correttamente il bordo delle pagine e a ritagliarlo e raddrizzarlo automaticamente; - Un software che, pur non essendo affatto intuitivo da usare (ho dovuto pazientemente guardare i video-tutorial della CZUR per capire perché avessi sbagliato la scansione del secondo libro!), ha molte funzionalità per migliorare in modo automatico le scansioni. L'unico problema che ho riscontrato, per cui però ho trovato una soluzione, è questo: se il libro è di dimensioni ridotte (minore di un foglio A5), il software viene più facilmente confuso dal colore chiaro della pelle delle mani che tengono aperto il libro, e non riesce a distinguere i contorni correttamente, includendo quindi le mani ai due lati dell'immagine. La soluzione che ho trovato è di tenere un foglio bianco A4 sotto al libro, per ampliare artificialmente i contorni: in questo modo il software riconosce correttamente il profilo nel 95% dei casi, e anzi si accorge che la maggior parte del bordo è bianco e può essere buttato. In conclusione, è uno scanner che non è di certo pensato per un uso generale, ma se vi interessa scansionare libri, soprattutto quelli con molto testo, è un must!

Bardzo udany zakup. Kupiłem CZUR Aura Pro głównie do digitalizacji książek, przewodników turystycznych i materiałów archiwalnych. Po pierwszych testach jestem bardzo pozytywnie zaskoczony. Największe wrażenie robi oprogramowanie. Automatyczne prostowanie wygiętych stron działa znacznie lepiej, niż się spodziewałem. Równie dobrze sprawdza się usuwanie palców, kadrowanie oraz rozdzielanie dwóch stron książki. Dzięki temu można skanować książki bez ich niszczenia i bez ciągłego poprawiania każdej strony. Jakość obrazu jest bardzo dobra, a OCR pozwala uzyskać przeszukiwalne pliki PDF, co przy większych zbiorach dokumentów jest ogromną zaletą. Skaner pracuje szybko, cicho i bardzo wygodnie. W porównaniu z klasycznym skanerem płaskim różnica w komforcie pracy jest ogromna. Planuję zdigitalizować kilkaset przewodników, książek i materiałów historycznych dotyczących Sudetów i już po pierwszych próbach jestem przekonany, że ten sprzęt znakomicie się do tego nadaje. Ocena: 5/5. Polecam każdemu, kto chce archiwizować książki bez ich rozklejania i ceni dobrze dopracowane oprogramowanie.

Muy sorprendido con este escáner, lo utilizo para digitalizar revistas de los años 50 y debo decir que funciona perfectamente, su sistema de aplanamiento de hojas funciona genial y fue todo muy rápido, el software lo reconoció a la primera y fue muy fácil pasar todo a formato PDF, el OCR funciona perfectamente, la calidad de escaneo es muy buena, las luces incorporadas evitan los reflejos, tiene una pequeña pantalla LCD de 2 pulgadas donde ver cómo escanea, está construido de forma muy sólida y se ven materiales de muy buena calidad. Recomendado.