Plustek Technology (www.plustek.com/usa) has begun shipment of the Plustek PS 4080U, a workgroup document scanner.

It features a scan speed of 40 pages per minute (80 images-per-minute in duplex mode), a 100-sheet feeder and a daily duty cycle of 4,000 pages per day. the Plustek PS 4080U is designed to be shared among a workgroup with applications requiring frequent scanning, says Robert Fuchs, Plustek marketing manager. 

The US$649 scanner is bundled with a suite of document management and OCR software. Its feeder enables pages sized from 2”x2.5” up to 8.5”x10” to be scanned without sorting.  A special long-paper mode enables scanning of non-standard sizes: contract and loan forms, EKGs, oil well logs and strip charts. 

Industry standard TWAIN ensure compatibility with thousands of scanning and imaging programs.  ABBYY FineReader Sprint is included to create and manage searchable PDFs.