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ScanRobot 2.0 MDS: Scanning very thick books up to 15 cm (6 inch)

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1 HN user recommended this demo1 month2021–2023 score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN brings it up in book-digitization threads as an elegant, careful scanner design.

A demo of the Treventus ScanRobot 2.0 MDS, an automatic book scanner that digitizes very thick books up to 15 cm with gentle handling.

“I always thought the Treventus ScanRobot was an elegant way to scan books” (HN, 2022)

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@dredmorbius Dec 2021 Cites it
on HN thread 50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021
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Generally: unbinding the leaves of a book so that they can be more easily handled by a scanner, often including an automated feeder. The simplest method is to simply cut off the binding (a powered paper cutter can do this in an instant). The alternative is nondestructive scanning, where the binding and publication as a whole remain intact. This is typically performed using flatbed scanners, angled scanners (the book is either face up or face down on a scanning bed which typically forms a ~90 degree angle), automated feeders which incorporate page turning (via numerous methods), or face-up scanning with digital deconvolution of page distortions. Higher speed presents higher risks of both poor / missed scans, and damaging original materials. Methods should be tuned to the materials, their intrinsic value and/or uniqueness, and end goals. See: [link] There are numerous book-scanning projects with YouTube videos of their methods. Typical rates range from ~300 -- 3,000 pages/hour, with 1,000 pp/hr being a good middling rate. DIY 1,000 pp/h [link] [link] Commercial, manual page turning: [link] 3,000 pp/h vacuum page turning [link] ... capable of managing very thick volumes: [this video] Google fully automated linear scanbot: [link] Face-up, no-platten, with deconvolution: [link]
Scanner capable of handling very thick volumes.
@hinnisdael Sep 2023 Cites it
on HN thread Linear Book Scanner – The open-source automatic book scanner
There‘s a somewhat similar commercial scanner [1] [2], with a V-design as well but inverted to scan from the top. Much gentler on the books as it‘s the scanner that moves, not the books themselves. Super happy to see someone develop an open-source alternative! [1] [link] [2] [this video]
Commercial V-design scanner that moves the scanner, not the books.

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