BÖWE BELL + HOWELL Spectrum XF scanner
production scanner

With scanning speeds up to 140 pages per minute, the best-of-breed SharpShooter TriLinear CCD Camera, and onboard Virtual Rescan™ (VRS) technology, the Bowe Bell + Howell Spectrum XF offers the best combination of features you’ll find in a high-volume production scanner. Spectrum XF provides all of the “extra” benefits you want – extra throughput, extra efficiency, extra OCR, ICR and Barcode recognition – without the extra cost.

Whatever your business or application, Spectrum XF will get you there... faster. With Spectrum XF, you can now take advantage of speeds up to 140 pages per minute (PPM).

SharpShooter™ CCD Camera Technology

Spectrum XF proves that going faster doesn't mean you have to sacrifice image quality.  The state-of-the-art trilinear camera design - with one line per red, green and blue - ensures images at a finer level of detail in bitonal and grayscale and in more vivid colour. 

Unmatched speed and image quality:

Better image quality also means higher accuracy for OCR, ICR and barcode recognition, a terrific advancement for forms processing applications.

Onboard VirtualReScan (VRS): 
Maximise Efficiency without the Trade-Offs

Why is “Onboard VRS” important? An onboard implementation of VRS is the best way to take full advantage of the image enhancement and interactive problem resolution functionality that VRS has to offer without sacrificing scanning speed. Spectrum XF features onboard VRS, which means that each model has a VRS image processing board built in. It’s like having a PC inside your scanner, helping to drive performance and processing time with optimal speed and efficiency.

Other manufacturers bundle VRS with their scanners but deliver disappointing results. Why? Because of the image enhancement functionalities are performed on the user's PC in software, rather than within the scanner in hardware, the user will have to sacrifice a measure of speed to accommodate these very intensive algorithms, which is particularly painful when scanning duplex, in colour or both. In addition, scanners without onboard VRS may encounter problems because the scanner has not been fully integrated with VRS.

Because Böwe Bell + Howell was the first manufacturer to implement onboard VRS as a standard feature over five years ago with the Copiscan 8000 Plus, no one has done it longer and no one does it better.

With Spectrum XF and Onboard VRS, you can have advanced speed and improved productivity at the same time, on one system - now that's performance without compromise.

 
 
Advanced Colour Dropout: 
Exceptional Forms Processing

Spectrum XF allows users to drop out any color – not just red, green, or blue. Great for users who want to drop out unnecessary colour backgrounds altogether while capturing colour information in the foreground. A great feature for forms processing users.

Onboard Auto Colour Detect: 
Colour When You Want It, Bitonal When You Don't - without the Speed Tradeoffs

Even if only a few of your documents need to be scanned in colour, the advantages of Onboard Auto Colour Detect are unmistakable.

By correctly identifying colour documents from bitonal documents automatically, the time needed for scanning can be reduced by up to 60% over other methods. And with ACD performed onboard in Spectrum XF, you won't have to sacrifice scanner speed to utilise it, which would negate the very productivity gains yielded by ACD.

Negative Inversion: 
Versatile Scanning

A great feature for scanning microfilm printouts, allowing users to convert black to white and vice versa when scanning images printed on paper that has a black or almost-black background.

All the Features and Benefits that made the Spectrum Series the Market Leader

Spectrum XF includes and builds upon all the incredible features and benefits that have made the Spectrum Series the market leader.