Build your own automatic book scanner


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!

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2 Responses to “Build your own automatic book scanner”

  1.   Philip Whittaker Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    Multipage scanner. Sounds great, but how much does that cost? Plus, you no longer have a book that is very readable.

    I do not think the lego option is very serious!

  2.   pauln Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    True but if one was scanning one book to share with several students it would be worth taking it apart because of the time it would save. True also re if the lego option is serious.

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