Friday June 02nd 2006, 10:28 am
Filed under: Digitization
Filed under: Digitization
Atiz, that company that was sending me unsolicited email about their automated book scanner a while back, recently announced a new product for digitizing books, the “BookDrive DIY”. The design is very similar to Archive.org’s Scribe project. It cradles the book in a V shape and uses two overhead mounted Canon Digital SLR cameras. A human must manually turn the pages. The system, without the cameras or a computer is $3500. It includes software for capturing and cropping photos. You are on your own for OCR. It isn’t clear to me how the “transparent plane” is raised to allow page turning.
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>It isn’t clear to me how the
>“transparent plane” is raised to
>allow page turning.
I was also confused. It turns out you slide the glass upward then you reach in to turn the page.
Comment by Tom 03.06.08 @ 2:14 am