With the paper width slider on, its hard to scan letter sized paper for whatever reason. The paper doesn't quite fit.

Its a nice compact scanner which I was looking for

1) The CD ROM provided didn't work and I could not download the application software from the plustek site; 2) I emailed their tech support and 2 days later I haven't even received an acknowledgment of receipt of my case.

Took me a few hours, but finally got it working with Windows 10. :D Windows still doesn't recognize the scan button on the scanner, but no big deal I just scan via the software. Everything's working great... so far. :)

When I reviewed the Plustek SmartOffice PS252 document scanner in early 2007, my key complaints were all related to software. So when Plustek told me that the SmartOffice PS282 ($350 street) was essentially an improved version of the PS252, I had high hopes for it.

Low cost; Duplex; 600 pixel-per-inch (ppi) optical resolution; 25 page-per-minute (ppm) rated speed

Software bundle is disappointing, particularly for scanning business cards; One button scanning uses arbitrary numbers for scan definitions, so you have to memorize the list of definitions or look them up

Its speed and scan quality are OK, but flimsy build quality and buggy software count against the PS286.

I bought the scanner, installed it no problem, but the Presto Pagemanager software that comes with it won't install. I get an error: "This application requires Mac OS X v10.6 or later". As I am running 10.10.2, its pretty frustrating.

The Bottom Line The Plustek SmartOffice PS282 portable document scanner is a handy and compact scanner that zips quickly through jobs and folds up so it doesn't take up a lot of space.

Compact; Fast

Weak business-card scanning