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

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:57:38 -0700

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

2010-03-17T11:58:21.914482-07:00-0700

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

2010-03-17T18:53:24.057025-07:00-0700

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

2010-03-18T00:54:21.624059-07:00-0700

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

2010-03-18T03:15:27.123384-07:00-0700

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

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

2010-03-20T13:42:34.901414-07:00-0700

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

2010-03-20T20:44:43.698715-07:00-0700

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.

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

2010-03-17T10:44:08.242610-07:00-0700

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.

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

2010-03-17T12:06:19.663396-07:00-0700

this is already mechanized in other book scanning systems don't see what the issue would be.

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

2010-03-17T12:03:10.460907-07:00-0700

Rip all that pages out and you could do it very simply I would think?

m-p-3 on Inventor makes scanner that processes a 200-page book in one minute

2010-03-17T21:08:25.252779-07:00-0700

And there goes the reselling value down the toilet.

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

2010-03-18T07:13:04.480468-07:00-0700

It's digitised then, who needs the original!

ultimatt42 on Inventor makes scanner that processes a 200-page book in one minute

2010-03-17T15:15:48.495914-07:00-0700

Yeah, but this is a research project to develop the basic algorithms to make a real product possible. To address the problem of missed pages, the "easy" solution is to use some OCR to pull out page numbers and look for gaps, then tell the human to flip past those pages again.

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

2010-03-17T11:47:36.526510-07:00-0700

The next step (I think) would be to make little robotic page turners.

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

2010-03-17T11:53:48.669984-07:00-0700

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

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

2010-03-17T12:06:05.649060-07:00-0700

It would just be easier to put the book onto a feeder scanner that does double sides.

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

2010-03-18T04:24:16.550899-07:00-0700

Or even just put them twice on the same scanner that doesn't do double sides :P

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

2010-03-17T15:34:22.182981-07:00-0700

Sucks. Has to flip manually.

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

2010-03-17T16:34:12.069267-07:00-0700

One thing at a time.

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

2010-03-18T03:26:51.347660-07:00-0700

Sucks. Doesn't load directly in brain..

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

2010-03-17T18:52:40.389961-07:00-0700

What do you mean one thing at a time? Seriously? I happen to use this sort of technology at work. We use separate pages and scan very quickly. Not as quickly as that, but its separate pages and automated. Look at production scanners.

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

2010-03-17T17:59:26.030388-07:00-0700

To some extent it's part of the appeal. Note the bit where it said it could be used in a future smart phone. You want to be able to hold the phone with one hand, and flip the book with the other. Not being able to scan a document on the fly because you didn't have your robotic page turner would cripple the technology. I don't think this guy's goal was to get perfect scanning for archiving purposes. It's supposed to be 'on-the-go' digitising of printed media.

Stingray88 on Inventor makes scanner that processes a 200-page book in one minute

2010-03-17T19:00:52.636069-07:00-0700

Other scanning systems already have the flipping pages part down. Combine and you're good to go.