The system, developed by lab members Takashi Nakashima and Yoshihiro Watanabe, lets you scan a book by rapidly flipping its pages in front of a high-speed camera. They call this method book flipping scanning. They told me they can digitize a 200-page book in one minute, and hope to make that even faster.
The camera operates at 500 frames per second, with a resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels. For each frame, the system alternates between two capture modes. First it shines regular light on the page and captures text and images. Then a laser device projects lines on the page and the camera captures that as well.
I can't imagine how long it would take my scanner to digitalize a book. Isn't technology amazing?
Link - Via Book Of Joe
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Digitalize? or Digitize... hey that's what i do for a living.
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I'm awestruck by the ingenuity of that approach to scanning a curved page. Bravo Japan!
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How long until the ACTA Copyright nazi's declare it a weapon of mass IP destruction and nuke it from space?
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Oh, it's cute now, yeah, but wait 'til it starts picking out its own books. Mwuheh.
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