CZUR Shine Surface Pro 16MP Professional Document Scanner with 2MP Webcam - A3 Book Scanner for PC & Mac, Fast 1-Second Scanning, 180+ Language OCR - Perfect for Home Office, Remote Work & Document Digitization

I bought the CZUR Shine Surface Pro Professional Document Scanner about three weeks ago. This unit will let me finish scanning the family photographs and empty my filing cabinet. In the time since I set this unit up, I have scanned almost 5000 items. It has had a little learning curve, not bad, but some. I read many reviews and have found some were a little uninformed. I hope this will help clear up some of the misunderstandings.First, the photographs. Some reviewers stated that it was not great at doing photographs (as in Glossy). I found if I shut the light off on the scanner and use the rooms bright lights as the light source it worked quite well. The photographs that was borderless and dark, I found that instead of the black pad the comes with the scanner that a large section of white paper works great. I used the color setting to scan all of the photographs including the black and white. I did not correct the photographs in the scanner software, I did the post editing in another program. If you scan a lot of old photographs, you should take a soft brush and brush off the black mat because dust and specs of dirt can confuse the software. There is a note about the scanning process that I will come back to later.Scanning documents is pretty straight forward. The process is fast and the automatic function is great. I was able to scan a hundred documents within a few minutes. I edited some documents before saving in the PDF format. I scanned a catalog and the software did function as advertised and removed the curve from the image.The Wishlist. I have used other scanning software from different companies. There is a few things I want to mention here. I had to use a third party software to batch rename the photographs. I wish this software the ability before scanning to setup the batch name for the set you will be scanning (name, starting number and step sequence.) The next item on the list is a white pad. It would be better than a piece of paper. Another item that would be of use is a suction table. A table that uses a downdraft that suck the document or photograph down and lay flat.The webcam function is the only thing that has confused me. When I use the scanner software, the only camera that I can access is the one pointed at the pad. The camera on the top of the column will not come on. It is accessible with the camera app in windows. It does not bother me because I have no need to use the webcam.