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New 3D-photographic scanner will capture 250 book pages per minute

Chris Meadows — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:45:00 +0000

CNet has a report on a new book scanner (Japanese) from Dai Nippon Printing that takes and corrects three-dimensional images of book pages, allowing for them to be scanned at the amazing rate of 250 pages a minute, meaning that the average book could be captured in little more than two to three minutes tops. [...]

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1DollarScan and BOOKSCAN are popular in US and Japan

Chris Meadows — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:56:21 +0000

Publishing Perspectives has an interesting look at Japanese jisui company BOOKSCAN and its American subsidiary 1DollarScan, via an interview with CEO Hiroshi Nakano. Jisui companies are the do-it-yourself e-book makers who will, for a fee, take customers’ paper books and scan them into e-books for them. This allows the customers to get rid of the [...]

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Review of Bound Book Scanning service, by Patricia Guth

Paul Biba — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:25:19 +0000

The December holidays have passed and there’s no doubt – given the lines at the Nook counter at Barnes and Noble – that book reading has changed immensely in the last 5 years or so. Indeed, the era of the e-book is here to stay and more and more individuals find e-reading the way to [...]

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Plustek book scanner is well behind its time

Chris Meadows — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:37:26 +0000

Wired’s Gadget Lab has a feature profiling a new, specifically-for-books flatbed scanner, the Plustek OpticBook 3800. The defining features of this scanner seem to be a thin bezel that allows all-the-way-to-spine scanning, and a specially padded liner to eliminate distortion. I’m actually a bit surprised that Wired is so excited over this scanner, given that [...]

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Fold-out document scanner heralds portable-scanning future

Chris Meadows — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:23:16 +0000

Dead-tree scanning just got significantly smaller. Gadget Lab and eBookNewser, among others, are carrying reports on the O-King, a new pocket-portable scanning device. It’s only 1.6 megapixels and has to have a USB power source to work, but its small size and $120 price tag might make it a great companion to a laptop for [...]

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Ion readies book scanner

Paul Biba — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:01:58 +0000

According to The Register, Ion has shown a new book scanner at CES. The unit scans and saves each page of a book onto an SD card. Scanning is done from two cameras, both of which have a flash. The unit will be available in the March/April timeframe and no price has been set. It [...]

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Haptic Braille device could let blind read print books in braille

Chris Meadows — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:12:15 +0000

Anyone who has seen the movie Sneakers is familiar with the idea of braille screens for reading by the blind. In the real world, however, braille screens are gimmicky, expensive, non-portable devices prone to mechanical failure, and I am told most blind computer users make do with speech-synthesizers instead (be it on their computer, or [...]

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On Being Divided While Books Are Sliced by Matt Hayler

a TeleRead Contributor — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:48:13 +0000

I like to think I’m pretty modern about this whole books-as-near-religious-object thing. I may be an English student, but I’m all for ebooks and the digitisation of resources. I’m almost at the stage where I’d buy an e-ink screened device (I still can’t quite get used to that glitchy-looking refresh rate), and for certain resources [...]

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Interesting scanner from Eloam

Paul Biba — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:27:59 +0000

Received an email from them about their scanner. It certainly looks convenient. Here’s what they say: 1 Scan id cards up to A3 documents and 3D object by one click. 2.Foldaway design, convenient to carry around. 3.USB powered (No adaptor required). 4.With document management software. 5. It is also a real time visualizer You can [...]

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iPod Touch 4 is not quite an iPhone, but close

Chris Meadows — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:47:02 +0000

It turns out that the iPod Touch 4 is going to be just as good an e-book reader as the iPhone 4, but is not quite up to par in other respects. On GigaOm, Kevin C. Tofel writes about why the iPod Touch 4 is almost but not quite the “contract-free iPhone” Jobs touted it [...]

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BookLiberator $200 DIY scanner

Chris Meadows — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:15:00 +0000

Gizmodo has a piece on the BookLiberator, a cube of plexiglass that contains two opposite-facing video cameras to photograph facing pages of a book. You place it on a book, photograph, lift, turn page, place it, etc. Conceptually, this appears similar to the $300 DIY Book Scanner I covered in December—they both use two cameras [...]

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Prizmo photo OCR software coming soon to iPhone

Chris Meadows — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:12:16 +0000

Want to use your iPhone to photograph and OCR scan printed matter? Your chance may be coming soon. CNet reports that Creaceed’s Prizmo software, a desktop photo-OCR package that includes camera tethering and perspective correction, will soon be coming to the iPhone. No word yet on price; the desktop version costs $40. The app’s crowning [...]

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World’s fastest scanner digitizes a 200 page book in 60 seconds

Paul Biba — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:33:42 +0000

Thanks to Bookofjoe. Note: TeleRead originally covered this scanner in March.

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Build your own digital camera-based book scanner for $20

Chris Meadows — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:15:00 +0000

Remember that $300 do-it-yourself rapid e-book scanner I mentioned in my post the other day about ethics and legality? Instructables has gone that scanner one better, with instructions for building a $20 photographic-scanning rig. The entry describes creating a roughly pyramidal framework out of hardware including tie rods, angle brackets, and shelf tracks. Into the [...]

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P-books to e-books: The ethics of downloading and the legality of scanning

Chris Meadows — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:35:03 +0000

I first heard about this story via Mike Shatzkin in a lengthy piece at his Idea Logical blog, then in a shorter piece by Mike Masnick at TechDirt. Since then, I’ve seen it crop up in a number of different places, and it’s just too beguiling an issue not to discuss. An ethicist at the [...]

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