SR300: ScanRobot - the automatic book scanner (part no 1)

[sweetcheeba1]

Very versatile, quick book scanner. Stand under it with ur ass cheeks spread and it becomes a great recreational product too.

[Goatsemen]

need a home version of this!

[biggeorge77]

Ahhhhh Input. Need.... More....... INPUT!!

INPUT INPUT INPUT INPUT INPUT INPUT INPUT

[AbadJay]

Skynet here we come. Not to mention that Arnold is already our Gov in CA.

[Chalsier]

crap, one step closer to skynet.

[romck77]

That was HOT!

[DNATS]

OR....contact the publisher for the digital copy and save money for your car insurance!

[breakablec]

Copyright infringement mashine!

[nunlover]

not really that impressive, i expected it to be faster

[v1ch]

Looks reasonably fast to me, desktop scanners aren't any faster with the actual scanning and turning the page safely without damaging the book will always be an issue.

[FlyByPC]

Given that books were never intended to be machine-read, it's impressive that they can be scanned at all. It even looks like this machine manages to scan the books without putting much stress at all on them. From the looks of it, the books might actually end up in better condition after having been scanned! Books with loose bindings could potentially be a problem, though...

[DrMattDestruction]

i like buch scanners.

[ins0mniakds]

I doubt they'd have anymore problems with grabbing more than one page by accident than today's modern printers do with grabbing only one sheet. It would take a few well placed rollers.

One step closer to a paperless society! Not just for the sake of trees, there are countless reasons I'd want some books with me electronically all the time.

FANTASTIC! I can't see why you wouldn't make a TON of money with this. Great job guys!

[Chinua3]

Well, if they were copying copyright material... they probably get their asses sued.

They are scanning books that were written by real people and thus there is that issue of copyright infringement. But for private use, I guess it could be pretty useful and I'd love to own one of these.

[5hangdr4g0n]

Thats awesome but what about larger books?

5/5

[t0kt0k]

That's ... sexy!

[knop3se]

Save the trees, save the world! :-)

[shoegazer666]

where can i get one and how much?

[Kormiku]

this is like watching paint dry

[akuma624]

Dude that is how SKYNET will learn about us!!!!

Watch out when it becomes self aware!!!

[Chalsier]

I wouldn't be surprised if the company was ran by a terminator

[ZutiGufu]

I imagine they might have problems with two pages being turned at once...

But nonetheless, GREAT vid!

5/5

[pithran]

Thanks to the musical track, this is the sexiest book scanner any of us have seen... Ever, neat piece of equipment.

[chicobangs]

I gotta say, between the odd camera angles, the wah-wah music and the mechanical in-and-out of the machine itself, that was the sexiest book scanner presentation video I've ever seen.

[plangenet]

Neat. What happens if it comes upon a loose page? Most old books I find at the library contain at least one or two.

[caracter2]

Fails

[bookscanner]

Where?

[plangenet]

Neat. What happens if it encounters a loose page? Usually old books have at least one or two.

[1stPlaceDirector]

How does this mechanical scanner keep the pages from sticking together? Even when doing it manually, pages often stick together and you have to use a wet finger to seperate them.

[fef560]

don't use a wet finger in the first place and they won't get sticky

that's gross too btw

[1stPlaceDirector]

How does it grab the pages when it turns them? I was thinking maybe vacuum and air to release?

[bookscanner]

At the bottom of the scanning unit (the so called ScanHead) there is a gap between the glas prisms, where air is inlet. This airstream causes a low-pressure which holds the pages on both sides of the scanning unit.

[bookscanner]

During the moving up of the ScanHead, this low-pressure keeps the left and the right pages and scans them both.

[bookscanner]

Reached the top of the pages, in that moment when the ScanHead is "leaving" the 2 pages, a gentle airflow from the right side (an air-needle -the yellow small parts in the video- blows out a short air stream) turns the 2 pages and immeadiately the ScanHead moves down, to scan the next two pages and so on and so on.

[bookscanner]

So, frankly speaking, what the ScanRobot is doing is a continous page turning and at the same time a moving up step so that it scans the 2 pages which slide smoothly over the ScanHead.

[JustMakingComments]

What's causing the paper to stick?

[atomh2o]

Great idea!

This machine can preserve our cultural heritage from the beginning of the first print of Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century up to todays books.

Keep at it!