Plustek, one of the imaging and communications solutions providers, has won the internationally renowned Energy Star certification.
The company has announced that four of its products book scanners OpticBook 3600, OpticBook 3600 Plus, OpticBook 4600 and OpticBook V100 have earned the certification.
Dr. Karen Ku, Vice President, Plustek, said, "Almost all of us are aware of consequences global warming and the harmful impact that carbon emissions have on our planet. We should be careful when it comes to using the products that have any direct or indirect association with carbon emission. One responsible way of supporting the cause is to use Energy Star certified products which help reduce global warming and at the same time result in huge saving as far as energy consumption is concerned."
Energy Star certified Book Reader V100 is a revolutionary product that turns the text books to talking books. With V100, students and academicians need not sit in front of their books for long hours rather they can toggle between various memorable images in their laptops or PCs and listen to their books created by V100.
This product helps the visually impaired persons, who otherwise take a lot of pain in reading the printed documents including, books, daily news papers, story books, circulars, notices, etc. As Plustek Book Reader V100 comes with highly accurate OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and auto document orientation software, it ensures quality output for TTS (Text to Speech).
Just pressing one button can easily turn the entire page to a life like voice. V100s ABBYY Fine Reader 6.0 Sprint plus OCR software provides a simple user interface and supports recognition up to 177 languages. Connected with PC through USB 2.0, V100 scans documents at 1200 dpi so that the color of the image remains intact and gobbles only 18 watt power in the functional mode.
Energy Star certified OpticBook 3600 is an innovative book scanner with unique design. It eliminates the book spine shadow and text distortion of traditional book copying and scanning. Its 7 one-touch buttons are designed to make the scanning easy and efficient, whether youre using bound originals (e.g., books, magazines) or normal paper (e.g., photos, documents).
With just one touch, you can save the scanned images or convert images of the text document into text files that can be edited with a word processor. You may also choose to send them to another application for further editing, to a printer, or to a new e-mail message as attached files.
Energy Star certified OpticBook 3600 Plus model can convert printed pages into PDF files within seconds. Connected through high speed USB 2.0, it can scan each page in 7 seconds (A4-size color, grayscale, B/W scan at 300 dpi).
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