20 February 2006
DIGITIZE WITHOUT TURNING PAGES
Just a quick post to tell you about a neat new piece of technology. ATIZ announced its BookDrive "the world's first and only desktop-sized, automatic page-turning scanner." It's pricey (about US$35,000) but is a fascinating development if you want to do a lot of digitizing. Check it out at http://www.atiz.com/BookDrive.php
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What we don't know about the BookDrive is how gentle it is on the books and pages. This will depend on the technology it uses to turn the pages. I hope that they will post a video or even testimonials on their web site about this.
The Kirtas automated book scanner will digitize 1200 and 2400 pages/hour respectively. Of course, they are more expensive ($149K and $189K), but are known to be very gentle on the books, even books that are 500 years old. (See this post for more information.
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