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Zeutschel OS 15000 Overhead Book Scanners

Zeutschel OS 15000 Overhead Scanner Family

The Overhead Book Scanner for All Your Digitization Needs

The Zeutschel OS 15000 is a state-of-the-art overhead book scanner series designed for user-friendliness and superior output quality. It guarantees the preservation of fragile materials, ranging from modern books, manuscripts, and cultural heritage collections, to historical manuscripts with up to 600 DPI true optical resolution, all while maintaining their integrity.

With two scanner models and two software options available, the Zeutschel OS 15000 overhead book scanner series provides a highly adaptable digitization solution, making it ideal for patron self-service, public and university libraries, interlibrary loan, document delivery, archives, and other institutions.

Zeutschel OS 15000 Comfort Overhead Book Scanner

Zeutschel OS 15000 Comfort

  • Powered by ScannX Award Winning Book Scanning Software
  • Adjustable comfort book cradle designed to protect your books
  • A3+ (18" x 14") size scan area
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Perfect for Patron/Self Service, Interlibrary loan, Document Delivery, and back-office use
  • Straightens text and removes thumbs from scans using patented Perfect Book technology
  • Integrates with Rapido, ILLiad, Odyssey, Article Exchange, Tipasa, and WorldShare ILL for easy interlibrary sharing
Zeutschel OS 15000 Advanced Plus overhead book scanner

Zeutschel OS 15000 Advanced Plus

  • Powered by Zeutschel's Omniscan Software
  • Motorized book cradle with self-opening glass plate.
  • Automatic book positioning, automatic opening of the glass plate and automatic lowering of the book plates after the scanning process, automatic scan triggering, electronically controlled contact pressure preset in 5 levels to protect the original.
  • Ideal for back-office use and archival digitization
  • Straightens text and removes thumbs from scans using patented Perfect Book technology

Key Features:
  • Scan Area: 18” x 14” (A3+)
  • Scan Quality: 100 to 600 DPI true optical resolution
  • True Color Processing:
    • 42-bit color / output 24-bit color
    • 14-bit grayscale / output 8-bit grayscale
    • 1-bit b&w / output 1-bit b&w
  • Max book thickness when closed: 4 inches
  • Glare free scanning
  • Independent of ambient light
  • Two Software and Scanner combinations
    • OS 15000 Comfort powered by ScannX Software
    • OS 15000 Advanced Plus powered by Zeutschel's Omniscan Software
ScannX Book Scanning Software Features:
  • Converts scanned images to document formats including PDF, Searchable PDF, PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, Encrypted PDF, .Docx (word), to image formats such as Single Image TIFF, Multi Image TIFF, JPEG (with compression control), PNG, and even audio formats like MP3 and EPUB.
  • Send scanned files to over 25 different destinations including email, USB drive, mobile devices, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Office 365, OneDrive, network folders, direct to printer, print release station, fax and more...
  • Integrates with Rapido, ILLiad, Odyssey, Article Exchange, Tipasa, and WorldShare ILL for easy interlibrary sharing.
  • Powered by ABBYY FineReader Technology with text recognition for over 200+ languages.
  • Translates text to over 120+ languages.
  • Easy-to-use software with built-in accessibility options for ADA compliance.
  • Multilingual interface in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hindi, Mandarin, and Spanish
  • Straightens text and removes thumbs from scans using patented Perfect Book technology.
  • Supports selected ITC and Jamex payment systems.
  • Blackboard and CBORD certified.
Zeutschel Omniscan Software Features:
  • Fast work with large amounts of image data thanks to 64-bit application.
  • Powerful image editing options.
  • Parallel image processing during the scanning process through multithreading, without loss of speed.
  • Perfect Book (optional) for almost distortion-free display of bound book pages.
  • Simple handling of complex processes through Express Mode.
  • Allows the capture and output of technical, descriptive and structural metadata.
  • Easy management of scan jobs.
  • Individual setting of the scan area for any number of sections (multi-masking).
  • Visual control of the work process through integrated thumbnail overview.
  • Flexible saving in common image formats.
  • Interfaces to delivery service applications.
  • Intelligent document recognition (file folders, spiral notebooks, eyeleted/stapled contracts, etc.).
  • Output of searchable and highly compressed PDF files.
  • Connection to the Zeutschel OS QM tool.
  • Scan once – output a variety of data formats.
  • Limiting the scanning area to the zone relevant to the original.
  • The OS 12 software runs on Windows 10 / 11