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@electronixtar: Yes, you areright :-) As we was not familiar with this language we scanned it upside down. But as we have several software correcion function like 180 degree page rotation, we rotated every page automatically and we sorted the book pages again after rotation.
It seems that the scanned pages are grabbed via static electricity / suction. q: Now, can you see how the pages always fall left after being scanned? A: The two things on both sides that look like flash lights -- the one on the left sucks in air while the one on the right blows out air (or so it seems)
Google books is one, they take books past copy right and past printing and make it available to the general public. I used google books to reference and read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.
Given that books were never intended to be machine-read, it's impressive that they can be scanned at all. It even looks like this machine manages to scan the books without putting much stress at all on them. From the looks of it, the books might actually end up in better condition after having been scanned! Books with loose bindings could potentially be a problem, though...
You can find results on the Homepage of the "Munich Digitisation Centre". At the right side "MDZ-News" you will find "What's new: The langlatest additions to the Digital Collections in order of publication." Here you can find the latest scanned pages.
I am interested to know where the books scanned by this will be made available? Many digitized collections are often claimed as belonging to the company which scanned them and they turn it into another way to make money instead of a way to share knowledge and culture.
does this use suction to keep the pages on the scanner? what DPI does it scan at? and how does it handle, lets say a picture book. or a book with colour pictures?
How does this mechanical scanner keep the pages from sticking together? Even when doing it manually, pages often stick together and you have to use a wet finger to seperate them.
So, frankly speaking, what the ScanRobot is doing is a continous page turning and at the same time a moving up step so that it scans the 2 pages which slide smoothly over the ScanHead.
Reached the top of the pages, in that moment when the ScanHead is "leaving" the 2 pages, a gentle airflow from the right side (an air-needle -the yellow small parts in the video- blows out a short air stream) turns the 2 pages and immeadiately the ScanHead moves down, to scan the next two pages and so on and so on.
At the bottom of the scanning unit (the so called ScanHead) there is a gap between the glas prisms, where air is inlet. This airstream causes a low-pressure which holds the pages on both sides of the scanning unit.
Great idea! This machine can preserve our cultural heritage from the beginning of the first print of Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century up to todays books. Keep at it!
