Scans a Variety of Document Formats

ID and Business Card

Business cards can be scanned 20 sheets at a time in portrait position. Plastic cards can be scanned one at a time in landscape position.

A3 Sheet Documents

With Plustek's special protection sheet, A3-sized document can be easy scanned and generated side by side in a joined image.

Folder the A3 paper into A4 size and place it into the protection sheet to scan.

Select ADF duplex under scan type, automatic size as page size, and tick the check box of merge pages for scanning. Manually select horizontal or vertical as the merging mode, and the scanned output will be joined into an A3 size document in a single pass.

Easy Scan with a Simple Press

The scanner comes with pre-set four custom buttons for up, down, scan and standby. For example, one can create searchable PDFs, scan to e-mail, scan to FTP, OCR, BCR, copy, or file documents by simply pressing a button.

Bundled Software

The SmartOffice PS286 Plus is bundled with a suite of document management and scanning applications that allow you to be productive right out of the box. In addition to searchable PDF, the SmartOffice PS286 Plus can create all popular image file formats and editable Microsoft Office files. Industry standard TWAIN and WIA drivers ensure compatibility with thousands of image enabled applications.

Automatic Features

Auto deskew

Auto Deskew function helps automatically straighten the skewed image after auto crop is done.

Automatic size and auto crop

When scanning various sized documents at one time, smaller sized documents were often scanned at the wrong size.

Auto Crop function can automatically identify the dimensions of the image and crop around the edges.

Color dropout

Color Dropout allows you to remove a color channel such as red, green or blue while scanning.

For example, if the original document contains blue texts or a blue stamp (e.g., a bill or invoice) and you want to discard it from the image, you may select Blue Channel from the drop-down list box.

Blank page removal

Automatically remove blank pages after the document is scanned.

Automatic Thresholding

Automatically adjusts for darker or lighter areas on a document when scanning in black and white. Automatic Thresholding eliminates the need to manually adjust contrast and threshold for each page.