CZUR Aura Pro Document Scanner Portable Book Scanner 14 MP Document Camera with 180+ Languages OCR AI Technology for Family Home Office for Windows 7/8/10/11, XP& Mac

Excellent at scanning books and journals quickly. Very easy to use and convert to searchable .pdf's. Takes a bit of experimenting especially if the pages are glossy. Smooths out page curls very well. Worth spending the most you can afford to get the highest resolution camera, especially for small fonts. Well worth it!

Scanner very easy to set up. Software downloaded from Czur website also easy to use. Was able to easily scan over 530 pages (larger than A4) in 3 hours which software compiled into a pdf. This would have taken days with my flat-bed scanner & would have given lower quality scans of curved pages. Only draw back is the price which is a bit steep!!

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.

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 scanner itself is a well-designed and decent piece of hardware but the software in charge of processing images and producing flat pictures of each facing page, is not up to the job; it makes too many errors.I tried scanning a 500 page book and had to make 120 rescans which made it a terrible experience. Interestingly, most of these looked like random errors as by pushing the scan button again with the exact same setup, most of the time a pair of pages would be created with no errors.I gave it up and requested for a refund. hope they put more effort on the software side in the future.

Had a book that was falling apart which was quite pricey and would take almost a month to ship a replacement. Decided to buy this to preserve the book, and many others. its done an excellent job. Its quick once you get the hang of it and with all the image editing options the scan came out looking better than the original book !

Image quality and processing is superb. One of the LED lamps on the side bar failed after a few months, but CZUR replaced it promptly and without fuss

I was really excited about this purchase. I had planned to scan my printer music collection having watched a fab video on YouTube. All I can say is that my experience was nothing like that video. The scanner wouldn’t talk to my PC properly, the music eventually scanned OK, but it printed less than a quarter of the size and I couldn’t find any way to fix it. I have worked with computers all my life and even spent four years digitising material for my city’s library so I’m not at all a computer novice. This kit - which is beautifully presented - deserves FAR BETTER documentation and a proper manual.