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tabloid sized scanner, designed for high quality scanning of art, photos, scrapbooks, genealogy research, newspaper, historical documents scrapbooks, documents, and other items up to 12 x 17\" in size.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 (i.e. scan, OCR, PDF and email). These features make it the ideal scanner for scrapbooking, genealogy, photo organizers, photo scanning, map scanning, historical document scanning, graphic designers, publishing companies, libraries, schools, small office/home office (SOHO) users and for those who require high quality large format scanning at a reasonable price.