Plustek launches revolutionary ADF scanners in India

Plustek launches revolutionary ADF scanners in India

Smart options for smart offices

Plustek’s PL1200 & PL3000 ADF scanners offer versatile high-speed scanning helping individual and business users enhance their document handling efficiency

New Delhi, April 19, 2006: Plustek Inc., one of the leading scanner brands worldwide today announced the availability of its PL1200 & PL3000 ADF (auto document feeder) scanners for busy offices that are aiming to enhance their productivity. The Plustek PL1200 & PL3000 ADF scanner, which can also be used as regular flatbed scanners, have a revolutionary mechanical design that enables better image focus and minimizes paper jams.

Plustek PL3000 and PL1200 have a scanning speed of 30 ppm (pages per minute) and 12 ppm respectively. The built-in Auto Document Feeder can take large quantities of documents—up to 80 pages at a time. Besides, the paper tray can accommodate various sizes of paper ranging from 9 cm x 11.5 cm (3.55″ x 4.5″) to 24.5 cm x 35.5 cm (9.65″ x 14″). This is especially useful in scanning continuous computer paper. The scanners offer a maximum hardware resolution of 1200 dpi.

According to Karen Ku, Vice President, Plustek Inc., “Plustek ADF scanners are ideal for busy office environments for they enhance document management efficiency, save valuable time and take productivity to a new high. The scan to PDF function not just meets but exceeds customer expectations when it comes to digital archiving requirements. We have been leader in the domain for 20 years now and pack every scanner product with high innovation, quality, reliability and intelligent yet graceful design.”

Plustek PL1200 and PL3000 come bundled with a host of utility software that makes it more versatile. DI Capture is a document image capture application software that helps users scan, import and organize document images in an efficient manner. Readiris Pro 10 OCR (optical character recognition) software is a powerful tool that supports recognition up to 116 languages. It works on scanned paper documents, PDF files and all popular image file formats and turns them into MS Word files, MS Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, web pages, XML files etc. The scanned information can be shared in appropriate digital format. The OCR results can be batch handled—saved individually or in one single file.

The NewSoft Presto! PageManager is an award winning photo / image management software that supports over 100 popular applications, including color OCR and full-text indexing functions. Another software bundled with the product, the NewSoft Presto! Image Folio is powerful document management software for OCR, instant PDF creation, or format conversion to MS Word or MS Excel maintaining color and images. The files can be shared over the network. It also stacks associated files together such that they can be opened together. The images can be browsed conveniently through the SlideShow applet.

Pricing & Availability

Plustek PL1200 and PL3000 ADF scanners are available in India at a price range of Rs.22, 000 and Rs.34,000 plus taxes respectively through their exclusive national distributor TelExcell Information Systems Private Limited.

About Plustek Inc.

Plustek is one of the leading global scanner brands. It started business operations in 1986 as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for many large companies, producing innovative lines of sheet fed and multifunction scanners. In addition to sales and support offices worldwide, its China-based factories provide affordable manufacturing and superior engineering. This allows Plustek to introduce dramatic new products to the market while continually reinventing and adding many first to its product portfolio. It has to its credit the world’s first low-cost book scanner, film scanner with highest resolution, slimmest CIS flatbed scanner, smallest A4 mobile scanner, smallest business card reader, smallest CCD flatbed scanner, and cordless ADF scanner amidst many others.