The 3 optics on the side are actually RED lasers. You don't see them on screen because the screen image is not being updated while the lasers are on, but they are very visible when using that thing. As they are red, the whole flattening does not work that well on magazines with red print (text boxes, advertisements and so on). The funny thing is, one can manually edit the flattening curvature in the software. It then presents the image taken with the laser lines, so that one can move the flattening curve (essentially splines with 10 movable points or so). And it is easy to recognize the laser lines on these images even on red background. So the whole "AI" recognizing the lines is not that intelligent. It seems to just look for a bright red line, but on red background it is overexposed and more like a white line on red background and the "AI" fails.
When scanning glossy magazines, glare is an issue. For me, it worked best with all ceiling lights off, the top light in the scanner off, just using the additional lamp that is attached with magnets. Oh, and direct sunlight from a window is an issue of course unless there is really no shadow in the scanning area. So I used it on cloudy days only. It is still faster and less annoying than scanning a bunch of magazines for documentation/archival purposes on a regular scanner. If you are willing to cut the objects being scanned into single sheets, a regular scanner with ADF would be the preferred option.
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