Inventor makes scanner that processes a 200-page book in one minute

tallwookie

Johnny 5 is ALIVE!!!!

zyzzogeton

That is really only part of the solution. It appears from the apparatus presented, that the user has to do the flipping. Try flipping a 200 page book without skipping a single page and revealing enough of the page that no characters are obscured. Not easy.

sigint_bn

I love their description of the method. "Book flippin' scanning."

PSBlake

I'm still waiting for a system which can perform some form of 3-dimensional imaging on a closed book, then de-layer the resulting data.

Of course, the viability of such a process would depend on finding an imaging method which was effective with most types of ink. I don't know how books tend to fare under radiography, MRIs, or ultrasounds, and I'm not well informed enough to know what other imaging techniques might work. Plus it would probably be expensive as hell.

jamsy

There was an article I read a while ago about a printer that can print books off rather quickly (cant remember how quickly without finding the article again) but if this scanner and the printer could be used together it could prove very useful in places like universities where there are limited amounts of each book, you could just pay for a copy of it and scan in an original and reprint it in a short space of time.

mtx

Better than my method of using a band saw to cut off the binding and placing the pages on 100 scanners and then flipping.

meoshimo

Sucks. Has to flip manually.

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