Build your own automatic book scanner

April 9, 2008

Scanning books into digital form so that you can create accessible versions is time consuming if you only have a single sheet flat-bed scanner - you have to scan the page, tkae the book out, turn the page, put the book backj, scan the page, take the book out….etc.

One solution is to buy a multi-page scanner and rip the book apart, then feed it in as a batch.

Here’s another, which is ingenious although I’m not sure it’s that practical…..an automatic book scanner made from Lego!

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocities.jp%2Ftakascience%2Flego%2Ffabs_en.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools 

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