The plustek opticslim 1180 is an a3 tabloid sized scanner designed for high quality scanning of art photos scrapbooks genealogy research newspaper historical documents scrapbooks documents and other items up to 12 x 17 in size opticslim 1180 includes four one touch scan buttons to simplify and automate the most common scanning functions ie scan ocr pdf and email these features make it the ideal scanner for scrapbooking genealogy photo organizers photo scanning map scanning