desertcart.com: CZUR ET24 Pro Professional Book Scanner, 24MP
Document Camera, 3rd Gen Auto-Flatten & Deskew Tech, A3 Document
Scanner, 180+ Languages OCR, Support HDMI, for
Windows/MacOS/Linux : Office Products
Review: A Great Tool for Researchers Using Old Books and Other
Material - I bought the CZUR ET24 as I had watched a few videos
and read a few reviews of it, after I had narrowed my search to a
CZUR product. It is drop dead simple to set up and use. I am
writing a history of my small hometown and much of the material I
have from that era, for direct use and for time period reference,
is in the form of old and mostly out of print books and images I
got from old newspapers - from fifty plus year old microfilm. I
have a small book I was using, about 150 pages. I set up the
ET24, downloaded the software in a few minutes and scanned it, my
first attempt, in 12 minutes, using the auto-scan feature. You
can turn a page and when the software detects that movement has
stopped for a couple of seconds, it will scan. This means if you
have to adjust the book, or fumble with turning a page, the
scanner won’t fire and get an image of your hand. I did some
editing and adjusting of images, which took another 13 minutes.
This is while learning to use the scanner. I was able to save it
as a searchable PDF and I could upload that to my Kindle reader.
I also uploaded it to my Voice Dream Reader, and I had an over
100-year-old, out of print audio book, as well. Just being able
to highlight as I go on the Kindle is a tremendous time saver,
not to mention the fact I can use the Kindle’s search feature. I
can also share this material with others or draw from it for
on-line forum posts. I had previously gotten images of
newspapers, from 1897 to 1931, that I saved as jpg images from
microfilm at a public library. I have them in folders by year. I
was able to upload these folders, combine all images into one
searchable pdf and now I can search the newspapers for any words
or phrases. This just involves the software, and not the scanner-
even if I did not have the scanner this software is well worth
the purchase price, for me. I can now search, literally thousands
and thousands of images and I do not have to read and index each
interesting thing for future reference. It was literally a few
clicks to get this done. Those few clicks saved me days of effort
in finding what I wanted. With the scanner I can get images of
things such as old scrapbooks, and photographs. I can also get
images of 3D objects- in my case some old photo print blocks from
a long-ago newspaper from the early 1900’s. I can save these
scanned images as Word Docs and then copy and paste them into the
text of the book I am writing. I can also easily take this with
me to sites where material is stored and do my scanning there.
Previously I was capturing images with my phone, then downloading
and spending a lot of time putting them into files and tagging
them with the names I could reference in a search. I can now
capture the images, tag them all at the same time e.g. “1927
Scrap Book-Mary Smith” and the software will number them in the
order in which they are scanned. I can save all images as
singles, and/or save them as Word Docs/pdfs- or both. I do
woodworking and I do not buy the cheapest tool. I always say, “If
you buy a cheap tool it will work just well enough to tick you
off and you’ll wish you’d bought the better one.” The ET24 with
the adjustable overhead lights and the lights on the post of the
scanner make it possible to get good images from e.g., glossy
objects or 3d objects, where you’d want light on the sides as
well directly overhead. If you find yourself ruminating over if
you want to buy the $600 one, over the $300, then you, like me,
probably really want and need the $600 one.
Review: Great purchase for doing historical research and writing.
- I was skeptical at first about getting a book scanner but this
works incredibly. I use it to scan early 19th century books into
pdfs and upload them into NotebookLM. I am writing a historical
fiction and the amount of information I need to have available as
I write makes it very time consuming. With the books uploaded I
can easily use AI to scan multiple sources about a specific
historical fact and have it available for moving forward in the
writing process. LOVE the SCANNER. Does a wonderul job and the
image quality it perfect. Very intuitive to use as well.
