The new CZUR (pronounced “Caesar”) Smart Book Scanner is a low-cost book scanner that should help to build your private digital library with an easier and faster way. You cannot buy one just yet but hopefully will be able to do so by January, 2016. 

Most book scanners cost several hundred dollars. The CZUR Smart Book Scanner is being introduced at $199 plus shipping. Equipped with 16 million pixels and creative algorithm, CZUR reportedly can make scanning books as easy as turning pages. The most difficult problems, including flattening curve, erasing fingerprint, smart edge-cutting, have been solved. The CZUR web site claims the new scanner will be the highest cost performance book scanner in the world.

Designed both for office and in-home use, the CZUR can scan files, contracts, vouchers, individuals pieces of paper, and more.

Of special interest to genealogists, the CZUR can help to build your private digital library with an easier and faster way. You don’t need to install any driver or software when using CZUR Cloud. It is the true smart scanner as some core functions are performed in the cloud instead of in the scanner or in your computer. Diaries, sketches and paintings can be scanned and stored by CZUR Cloud, and you can check everything out on your laptop, iPad or your smart phone directly.

CZUR is also a video presenter. By connecting to screen through HDMI, materials can be presented directly with 1080P.

You can learn more at the CZUR Smart Book Scanner web site at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/czur-scanner-build-your-own-digital-library#/ as well as in the YouTube video below. Also, you might want to read a press release entitled Google Books Facing Challenge from Open-source Library that is shown below the video.