(Nanowerk News) Developed at the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the University of Tokyo, the BFS-Auto book scanning robot can achieve high-speed and high-definition book digitization at over 250 pages/min using ...

Computer systems have helped catalogue libraries for decades, but if some reckless reader has put a book back in the wrong spot, it's a daunting task for librarians to search the entire building for ...

Researchers in Japan have built a commercial book scanner capable of blasting through 250 pages-per-minute, meaning it can fully capture your average novel in under 60 seconds. Put another way, it ...

Like a bored child who can’t be bothered to read, this robot flips from page to page. This odd contraption is actually a new way to scan and digitize the world’s books — at a speed of 250 pages per ...

A super scanner and a major university have agreed to work on Microsoft's book digitization project. Kirtas Technologies, a maker of high-speed scanners and digitization software, signed a deal ...

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[Daniel] at diybookscanner.org posted a roundup of the best automatic book scanner builds to date. A lot of the comments on our last coverage of book scanners were summed up by [Spork] with, “No ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

Super scanner and Cornell join Microsoft's project to digitize tomes for the Windows Live Book Search project. Photo: Robotic scanner In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and ...