ScanRobot Automates Copyright Infringement
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 8 of September , 2008 at 1:14 am
Although I’d love to be able to scan in my entire collection of comic books and take them everywhere I go, I just don’t have the time or patience. Or a scanner. Robots are great at tedious and repetitive tasks, but when it comes to scanning important manuscripts like my collection of 23.5 Tintin books, the tricky bit involves page-turning. Such a delicate and precise procedure demands either an expensive and complicated robot, or a simple idea, like the ScanRobot:
This elegant machine is able to scan 25 pages per minute by scanning and turning two pages at once. Pages stick to the center wedge, get scanned as the wedge moves up, and then are gently blown aside with a jet of air. The simplicity makes it reliable and cost effective, and it’s designed for industrial strength book scanning projects like this one. Obviously Google needs a couple of these babies, since Tintin isn’t in their collection yet. Hear that, Google? Get on it!
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Category: Consumer,Industrial
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Comment by snailsnail
Made Monday, 8 of September , 2008 at 3:55 am
The Internet Archive has a video of its (apparently now outdated) book scanning robot here:
http://www.archive.org/details/scanning_robot
It’s wonderful to watch in motion.
Comment by Sueann Catherwood
Made Monday, 21 of November , 2011 at 9:47 am
Your recommendations are find on…I feel the idea of persistence is in particular critical…it’s what you do at the time of time that issues…dispensing constant quality.
Comment by roof cupolas
Made Tuesday, 22 of November , 2011 at 1:45 pm
Kudos to that!
