BFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/min

BFS-Auto can achieve high-speed and high-definition book digitization at over 250 pages/min using the original media format. This performance is realized by three key points: high-speed fully-automated page flipping, real-time 3D recognition of the flipped pages, and high-accuracy restoration to a flat document image. This system is toward the practical use in 2013.
http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vision/...

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[jliu512]

THEY TOOK OUR JERBS !!!!

[capetaquebratudo]

How much time for the first guy to put his butt on it?

[universalsurfer80]

WHERE DO I BUY THIS>HOW MUCH?

[ken Ombachi]

Amazing speed but is the cost of ownership? My client, huge library needs this type of scanner. How do I buy for them?

[fall0rn]

If we scan all our books, and release future content in ebook format only, what will ever happen if googles server go down? lol

[Sineburst]

only in japan

[Tiago Seiler]

Unless the book is not uniform in shape, it can't do that, because it is not actually flipping pages, but rather is letting pages go loose by pulling back on that metal piece. Unless the book has a page that is wider than the previous, that can't happen...

[Eric Strayer]

This opens more doors than it closes. I'm thinking of low SES community college students. I have found that a laptop and some PDFs or online readers is way cheaper than traditional textbooks. As well, is lots of older stuff not yet online. I think we are smart enough to figure out the copyright/intellectual property issues.

best to all,

es

[Fulgrog]

In other words, what if it skips two pages at once instead the one, by accident...

[Tiago Seiler]

I don't think that word exists...

[Tiago Seiler]

DER DURKA DUR

[rennymccullough]

#JohnnyFive is alive (or at least in progress)!