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Ion Audio Book Saver – a novel book scanner

January 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news

This is one of those things that I wish I hadn’t missed at CES. The Book Saver is a new scanning rig from Ion Audio.  It has a novel design and a couple of rather interesting features. You’ll need to watch the demo video to really grasp how this thing works. I’d seen some articles [...]

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Kabis III book scanner (video)

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows, video

This is the Kabis III, and it’s made by Kirtas. This is one of their more sophisticated models. It’s a dual camera system with automatic page turns. I have their brochure in front of me, and Kirtas make a number of less expensive models based on the same design. The one thing that sets Kirtas [...]

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book flip scanner

June 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · digitization projects, hardware news

This is a few months old, but I just came across it and it is so very very cool. Some researchers at the University of Tokyo are working on a truly high speed book scanner. The scanner works by letting you rapidly flip the  pages of a book in front of a high-speed camera. When [...]

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