The EDS ALPHA is an innovative A3/A2 desktop planetary scanner and it’s the first born in the METIS EDS family (Easy Digital Scanner). The EDS is a new line of professional scanners that has been created by METIS in order to overcome the usual limitations inherent this category of products. In particular, to offer a superior image quality, ergonomics, ease of use and high productivity in a unique integrated solution. The EDS ALPHA integrates an innovative V-Table design supported by specific software tools in order to hold the originals in any possible position/angle. The V-table accepts and gently holds various types of originals in an optimal manner, even antique books with limited opening angle. It allows scanning large books, maps, drawings and many types of originals even larger than the A2 format and up to 15cm of thickness. Thanks to the METIS exclusive “shape recognition” and “curvature correction” technology, which is integrated into the EDS software, the document shape is detected in real time and the acquired image is deskewed in a fraction of second delivering a perfect result.