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

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Uploaded by on Jun 13, 2008

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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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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)

  • 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.

  • So that's what book pirates do

  • Most printing equipment uses compressed air to break the static bonds between pages. Proper humidity and temp can have a good effect, too. The books would need to be opened and fanned out as a helper. I don't know what other tricks this system would use.

  • There are several times in this vid where it takes more than one page, will that be missing in the result?

  • sounds kind of like darth vader.

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

    its amazing

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