High speed book scanner - GIF

[Altair]

High speed book scanner.




Previously:

Linear book scanner - GIF
Making a hammer from a book - video
Antique multi-book research carousel - photo

[HobieDave]

Solves the issue of breaking the books' spine in conventional scanning.

[bruce.desertrat]

I remember Google working on stuff like this for the Google Books project, although IIRC that used two cameras, one aimed at each page with a significant amount of post-processing to normalize the scanned print.

[Philip Davies]

It’s interesting to note that if your name is printed in a book, you are likely to spot it, if you flick through it fast. It happened to me once.