SR300: ScanRobot - the automatic book scanner (part no 2)

The ScanRobot in action, scanning an old book from the 16 th century, by a speed of circa 1250 pages per hour. In this video the whole scanning process and the result in the software is visible.

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[Romperjet]

I am interested to know where the books scanned by this will be made available? Many digitized collections are often claimed as belonging to the company which scanned them and they turn it into another way to make money instead of a way to share knowledge and culture.

[bookscanner]

You can find results on the Homepage of the "Munich Digitisation Centre".

At the right side "MDZ-News" you will find

"What's new: The langlatest additions to the Digital Collections in order of publication."

Here you can find the latest scanned pages.

[scumblz]

These videos would be interesting even more with some commentary about how the machine works.

[Mike Trieu]

Does this rig also OCR the text it scans so the content is searchable?

[Barry Iduhn]

It seems that the scanned pages are grabbed via static electricity / suction.

q: Now, can you see how the pages always fall left after being scanned?

A: The two things on both sides that look like flash lights -- the one on the left sucks in air while the one on the right blows out air (or so it seems)

[UssenterprizeDv2]

Google books is one, they take books past copy right and past printing and make it available to the general public. I used google books to reference and read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

[icurays1]

sounds kind of like darth vader.

[djsuperstar717]

how does it pick up the pages and how does it scan 2 pages at once?

its amazing

[seeyouinthenextlife]

You guys have to much time on your hands. Kudos though!

[spathieluder]

awesome technology. How long does it take to do an image to text translation?