Plustek Technology has announced the SmartOffice PS286 Plus document scanner, the latest offering from its line of SmartOffice series scanners. The SmartOffice PS286 Plus is an Energy Star Certified, high-speed, workgroup class, document scanner with an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF).

The SmartOffice PS286 Plus is a step up from the previously launched SmartOffice PS282. New features of the SmartOffice PS286 Plus include; faster duplex scan speed (50 images/minute), scan to FTP via DocAction, and the ability to scan A3 sized documents via internal image stitching.

The SmartOffice PS286 Plus features a 50-page ADF and 1,500 page-per-day duty cycle. The scanner is designed to scan business documents (up to 35cm long) and rigid cards, such as ID cards and drivers licenses (up to 1.2mm thick), without operator adjustments.

The included software productivity suite featuring ABBYY FineReader Sprint allows the user to easily create and manage searchable PDFs to archive documents, making record keeping and file maintenance effortless. Industry standard TWAIN drivers combined with TIF, JPG, PDF and Microsoft Office file formats ensure compatibility with thousands of scanning and imaging programs.

Built in image processing increases image quality, reduces rescans, and increases OCR accuracy. It iis available from Proscan for $A549 (inc. GST) and $NZD799 (inc. GST)