ELAR PlanScan

ELAR PlanScan - book (another name is planetary) scanners designed to digitize documents of different formats and thicknesses, any books and folders, dilapidated or damaged documents, large-format originals to A1 format, and also allow you to digitize glare originals, including design tracing, coins, laminated documents or with metal embossing.

ELAR Scanner PlanScan Series C

The ELAR scanner PlanScan series C is a scanner made as an absolutely independent device that does not require a control workstation: the scanning and processing parameters are configured by embedded software, the digitization result is continuously displayed on the built-in monitor, and the resulting images are stored either on flash cards connected to USB ports or hard drives, or transmitted to the network via the Gigabit Ethernet interface.

ELAR scanner PlanScan C series "3"

The scanner configuration is designed to create electronic copies of large book editions. This scanner model is equipped with a unique book cradle that allows you to digitize discarded originals up to 50 cm thick and weighing up to 50 kg both with pressure glass and with its fixation in the 90-degree position. The equipment supports all modes of automatic scanning start: when lowering the pressure glass, when turning the book sheet, at a given time interval. The cradle is designed with ergonomics in mind and has a rigid load-bearing structure.

It is worth noting that the unique technological solutions used to create the book cradle apply to the entire model range of PlanScan C scanners of the "3" series.

The equipment is already used to digitize unique documents of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.

Scanner for books ELAR PlanScan series A2V

Scanner for books ELAR PlanScan series A2V is designed for contactless (color, halftone, black and white) digitization of books, magazines and catalogs, newspapers, various kinds of fastened documents, dilapidated and non-standard sewn materials, including with a dense spine that does not allow you to disclose the document by more than 120 degrees. The ability to scan documents to A2 + format, as well as translucent originals, glossy documents. The unique optical system ensures high quality of the obtained electronic images at any state of the original. It does not require a direct connection to the computer, allowing you to save symbols to the network or to USB media. All controls with a convenient color touch panel with a graphical menu in Russian with the ability to create an individual user interface. Preview the scanned image on the built-in 18'monitor.

The capabilities of the ELAR PlanScan A2V scanner allow you to configure the interface of the touch control panel so that, in addition to scanning control functions, it can be used to enter index information directly from the scanner, as well as send data directly to the archive. To do this, the system provides a Russian-language user interface with the ability to configure the document search card.

Careful scanning

The non-contact scanning method completely eliminates the mechanical impact on the original, ensuring its safety.

A book cradle with a variable angle of inclination of 120 or 180 degrees allows you to qualitatively digitize thick books and discarded documents that have a hard spine or tight stitching without damaging the original.

A unique backlight reprosystem using special LED illuminators (LED) carefully illuminates the originals with a moving strip of light, and also allows you to scan glare documents.

Universality

PlanScan of the A2V series is ideal for scanning a wide variety of originals.

• from a catalog card to drawings and maps of A2 format;
• various discarded documents and books up to 20 cm thick;
• from new documents to dilapidated and rare originals;
• on paper of any quality: glossy, laminated, translucent, embossed.

Functionality

• maximum format of the original A2 + (620x460 mm)

optical resolution:

• for A2V and A2VTs models - 400 dpi
• for A2V-600 and A2VTs-600 models - 600 dpi
• output resolution - from 100 to 600 dpi;
• Automatic format determination
• automatic focusing up to 150mm;
• built-in 3D scanning optical system: An optional 3D camera with a laser sensor analyzes and corrects the curvature of the original book pages, providing precise focus, high image quality, and the ability to scan volumetric objects;
• Saving data directly to a network or USB drive
• illumination on LED technology ensures the absence of ultraviolet and infrared radiation;
• backlight system is built into the body of the scanning chamber, without external structural elements, which ensures compact dimensions and ease of use.

Built-in image processing

The 3D optical scanning system with a laser sensor reliably corrects the geometric distortion of the book spread.

When scanning in black and white, the PlanScan A2V scanner for ELAR books provides dynamic image binarization with maximum preservation of document details, including pencil sketches.

A wide range of software functions provides professional image processing: adjustment, removal of "noise," cropping by format, rotation in/anti-clockwise or mirror, image scaling, correction of brightness, contrast and color shades.

An additional software module for managing ICC color profiles provides accurate color reproduction when images are later used for reprography and copying. Publishing designers get a professional image tool.

Remote Diagnostics and Management

ELAR PlanScan series A2V is equipped with a unique Scan2Net system that allows it to be used as a network device with a Gigabit Ethernet interface. With its help, the scanner is remotely controlled, which allows you to save scanned images to any computer that is available on the network, as well as perform remote diagnostics, configuration and update of the PlanScan series A2V service departments.

The ability to install an additional Wi-Fi module allows you to control the scanner Apple from iPad tablet devices or operating under the OS, Android but also save images directly to these devices. Just download and install a free control program on your tablet computer. This is useful in libraries, since people will not use the originals, but their copies, for engineering services, often using diagrams and drawings away from the office, etc.

Reliability and Cost-Effectiveness

The metal case of the scanner with a fixed position of all components ensures reliable operation of the device during many years of intensive operation.

The lighting lamps are made using LED technology with support for an energy-saving operating mode and are designed for a long operating time - up to 20 thousand hours.

Complete set

ELAR PlanScan A2V/ A2VTs/ A2V-600/ A2VTs-600.

• Scan start pedal.
• Interface kit for connecting to PC.
• Monitor 19 '.
• Scanning software on Apple iPAD and Android.

Optional package

• Functional keyboard.
• Additional control pedal.
• Pressure V-shaped glass.
• Additional scanner software modules.
• Wi-Fi module for connecting Apple iPad and Android tablet devices.
• Scanning software BCS-2
• Additional software modules for BCS-2
• OPUS FreeFlow Scanning Software
• Additional software modules for OPUS FreeFlow
• TWAIN Scanner Control Driver

2025: Generation of scanners with built-in "ScanImage"

Elar Corporation on May 20, 2025 introduced a generation of PlanScan scanners designed to solve a wide range of digitization tasks.

ELAR PlanScan universal book scanners are designed to digitize multi-format documents, books and folders, including discarded and damaged materials. This generation of ELAR PlanScan includes significant improvements that increase the efficiency of devices. One of the key features is the laser technology for 3D measurement of the height profile of the original, which allows you to accurately position the illuminators and adjust the focus for free-form objects. By using 60 reference points, this is 20 times more compared to foreign analogues, the altitude profile is more accurate and reliable, and the quality of the received data becomes much higher. This allows you to obtain high-quality images of materials with differences in thickness and complex relief, for example, an ideal picture of text that goes into the spine area on documents with a tight stitch, or scan paintings in frames, where it is important to fix the details of images at each level of the plane - the relief and signatures applied to the frame, and accurate transmission of the artwork itself.

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ELAR PlanScan scanners are equipped with a built-in one, software ScanImage which provides all the advantages of ElarScan scanners when working in the software and hardware complex (PAC) format. Open operating system on the base Linux allows you to install additional applications and connect external devices. Software registered register of Russian software Ministry of Digital Development Russia in and has certificates of compatibility with domestic operating systems based on Linux. Support for background processes for exporting and storing files on the built-in PC with the ability to recognize text and delayed post-processing is implemented, which significantly speeds up and simplifies the workflow.

ELAR PlanScan scanners offer many modifications, including models with interchangeable glasses, where flat and V-shaped glass is included, as well as a modification with a deep cradle for heavy sewn originals up to 50 cm thick. Modification P (Manual) is suitable for working with documents that require special attention and manual adjustment. Modification of PA (Manual Automatic) combines manual control and automation of processes, which makes it suitable for digitizing large volumes of materials. Modification * 50, respectively, is designed to work with large-format documents. Scanners support A1 and A2 formats, which allows you to work with documents of various sizes. Network and USB interfaces provide connectivity flexibility to integrate devices into any enterprise IT infrastructure - simplifying the process of digitizing and storing data.

Adaptive lighting with a color index (CRI) of more than 90 guarantees high image quality. CRI is an indicator of compliance with daylight, the higher its value, the more close the lighting system to the reference, which positively affects the naturalness of color reproduction in scanned images - all colors are displayed more natural and realistic. The LiveView camera with a resolution of 8 megapixels allows you to observe in real time the correctness of placing the originals on the scanning surface. This makes it possible to accurately position documents before starting digitization, avoiding obtaining defective images and eliminating the time spent on rescanning, which is especially important when working with non-standard, complex and dimensional materials.

The linear scanning method, in which digitization is carried out in a moving beam of light that moves along the scanned original, allows you to obtain a consistently high resolution and clear picture when working with documents of any format along the entire perimeter of the scanning area.

This generation of ELAR PlanScan scanners is also highly resistant to mechanical influences. The precision focus setting remains the same even when transported, ensuring stable scan quality.

The speed of scanners is an important aspect of their functionality. One of the modes allows the scanner to work in a limited area, which increases the speed of digitizing documents in a small format. In this mode, the beam of light moves within the specified limits without capturing the unused area, which reduces the processing time of the image and increases the overall performance of the system.

An additional plus of the Russian scanner is the possibility of two-way scanning. Here, when a beam of light passes along the original, the next scan begins at the end of the previous pass. This avoids the time it takes to reset the mechanism before each new scan. In addition, ELAR scanners offer a high-speed mode for streaming digitization when the image processing level is not critical. In this mode, the scanner is capable of processing more than 60 frames per second, which allows you to efficiently capture images at a high frequency. This is especially useful when scanning large amounts of information, such as archive arrays, which significantly reduces processing time and improves overall efficiency.

Thus, this generation of ELAR PlanScan scanners opens up opportunities for effective work with documents, contributing to the development of digital technologies in Russia.

2015: ELAR Improves Planetary Scanner

On August 4, 2015, ELAR Corporation announced the development of a pressure glass design for ELAR PlanScan A2V planetary scanners. The advanced module is designed to digitize stitched documents that cannot be fully disclosed without the risk of mechanical damage to the spine.

ELAR Scanner Module PlanScan A2V, 2014

When digitizing paper arrays, in rare cases there were discarded documents with text closely adjacent to the center of the spread. The root density of such originals did not allow scanning of the fully open turn, and a slight shading occurred in the center of the scan image. To eliminate this feature, ELAR engineers have developed a new version of the V-shaped pressure glass, increasing the area of ​ ​ useful scanning space.

"The previous design was two glass blocks, which, when embedded in the clamp module, were connected at the edges. The new design of the optical unit is monolithic. For its implementation, seamless docking of the folded edges of the glasses is carried out with subsequent fixation with a special adhesive composition. Thanks to this design, we have reduced the shadow zone, "said the Igor Mikaelian head of the product department of the Equipment Support and Technical Support Department. ELAR

The corporation invited customers using the PlanScan A2V ELAR planetary scanner to replace only the glass part of the clamp module without changing its main design, which will cost less than purchasing the assembled module.

"Stitched archival businesses require careful handling, so when digitizing them, a V-shaped cradle with an appropriate pressure glass is often used. The new model of the optical unit will improve the quality of scan images, which is especially important when working with archival businesses with a limited disclosure angle. The development of ELAR will be in demand by our customers. This is confirmed by the sales statistics of the ELAR PlanScan A2V scanner, "said Alexander Radchenko, Deputy Commercial Director of ELAR - Head of Department for Work with Cultural Institutions and Archives