plustek MobileOffice AD480 User Guide

: June 7, 2024
: plustek

Table of Contents

plustek MobileOffice AD480
KEY FEATURES
Software
- Plustek DocAction
- NewSoft Presto! BizCard
Built-in OCR
- Plustek OCR*
Hardware Requirements
Specification
FEATURES
References
Read User Manual Online (PDF format)
Download This Manual (PDF format)

plustek MobileOffice AD480

Product

Productive and robust mobile scanner for the office and home

The AD480 scanner is versatile and robust mobile scanner in its class, designed for home and small offices. With double-sided scanning up to 20ipm and a 20-page automatic document feeder users can scan efficiently, in the office or at home. It has a strong robust design for handling up to 500 documents a day. The AD480 scanner deliver speed, image quality, and great paper handling, along with easy integration and compatibility with document imaging applications.

KEY FEATURES

Ultra compact and robust for mobility
High speed: 20ppm Grayscale/20ppm colour
Productive mobile scanning with 20-sheet ADF
Scans rigid cards including insurance cards, ID cards, drivers licenses etc
Single-touch customizable button automates up to 3 frequent scanning jobs (e.g., Scan to Searchable PDF, Scan to file, email, network share, copy, etc.)
Advanced image enhancement to automatically straighten and rotate pages, adjust brightness, detect color, and crop images minimizes file size and increase OCR accuracy.
No warmup time. Instant On LED illumination.
Small footprint – easily transportable and fits in crowed office
1500 page per day duty cycle

Software

Plustek DocAction

Button utility to simplify document scanning. DocAction enables you to specify your personalized scanning configuration settings and scan documents with the touch of a button. Scanned documents are automatically sent directly to Printer, Email, Folder or FTP. DocAction also enables you to scan directly to many imaging and document management applications. DocAction saves scanned documents in all common imaging formats including: JPEG, TIFF, and PDF.

NewSoft Presto! BizCard

A comprehensive contact management system that helps you scan business cards, edit business cards, and then synchronize the contacts to various management applications. It is the ideal tool for staying in touch and organized no matter what languages your contact’s business cards are printed in.

Built-in OCR

Plustek OCR*

Plustek OCR (Powered by ABBYY® FineReader®) helps to convert scanned paper documents, photos, and PDF files into editable formats. With Plustek OCR, you can convert paper documents to editable formats, including Microsoft® Word®, and Excel®, edit resulting documents, and reuse their text and other content.

Hardware Requirements

Pentium IV 2.0 GHz processor (Pentium IV 3.0 GHz processor recommended)
CD-ROM Driver
One available USB Port (USB 2.0 recommended)
1GB RAM or higher recommended
800 MB free HDD space (1 GB or larger recommended)

Specification

Image Sensor	CIS x 2
Light Source	LED
Optical Resolution	600 dpi
Hardware Resolution	600 x 600 dpi
ADF Capacity	20 Sheets (A4/ Letter, 70 g/m² or 18 Lbs) 6 Sheets (Business

Card)
Scanning Speed| 20 ppm / 40 ipm (Grayscale, 200 dpi, A4)
20 ppm / 40 ipm (B&W, 200 dpi, A4)
20 ppm / 40 ipm (Color, 200 dpi, A4)”
Scanning Area (W x L)| ADF: Maximum: 216 x 914.4 mm (8.5″ x 36″)

Minimum: 12.7 x 12.7 mm (0.5″ x 0.5″)

Cardslot : Maximum: 90.9 x 105 mm (3.58″ x 4.13″)
Minimum: 12.7 x 12.7 mm (0.5″ x 0.5″)

Acceptable Paper Sizes (W x L)| ADF: Maximum: 216 x 914.4 mm (8.5″ x 36″)

Minimum: 50.8 x 50.8 mm (2″ x 2″)

Cardslot : Maximum: 90.9 x 105 mm (3.58″ x 4.13″)
Minimum: 50.8 x 50.8 mm (2″ x 2″)

Acceptable Paper Weight (Thickness)| Paper: 50 g/m² to 120 g/m²

Plastic card: Non-Embossed up to 0.76 mm & Embossed up to 1.24 mm (ISO 7810)

FEATURES

Ultra compact for space saving and mobility

With a smart, compact design, the ultra-lightweight AD480 is ideal for both users on the front desk and in the office. Its small footprint allows the scanner to fit comfortably into travel cases and onto busy desktops. True plug-and-scan is possible by simply connecting the scanner to any PC. Plustek’s unique built in DocAction software is ready to go – without any need to load drivers or application software.

Dedicated ID card scanner

With card scanning becoming increasingly important for ID authentication, the AD480 has its own dedicated card scanning slot. A sophisticated switchback feed mechanism ensures it quickly scans ID and embossed cards.

Enhanced image processing

Advanced technology allows for high precision scanning up to 600dpi. Numerous features such as Auto Color Detection, Auto Rotate for Text Orientation, Colour Dropout (RGB), Gamma, Contrast, Brightness, Image Edge Fill, Multi- image output, Card Scanning Mode, Remove Blank Pages, Remove Background, Denoise, Character Enhancement, Outputs scanned documents in a variety of formats such as PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats are included, so there’s no need to pre-sort your documents before scanning. Simply load and then let the AD480 do the work for you. An optical resolution of 600dpi, plus all the latest image processing features, ensures outstanding quality results every time.

Auto Threshold
Automatically threshold the current image into a binary black and white image.
Auto Rotate
Automatically rotates document based on the contents of the document
Auto Crop & Deskew
Automatically straightens and crops image to the documents actual size.
Auto Color Mode
Automatically detects document color and scans document in color, grayscale or black & white mode.
Multi-Image Output
Scans and saves documents in 2 or 3 color modes at same time.
Color Dropout
Removes red, green or blue color when scanning forms.
Blank Page Removal
Automatically removes blank pages without manual editing.