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Robotic Book Scanner for High-Volume Digital Conversion (#1904)
Posted: 11/16/2005; 1:08 PM by Terry Frazier
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This is very cool a non-destructive robotic scanner for books. The video of this thing at work is nice. [via Tim Oren]

Bookbots

Maybe not as world shaking as milbots or healthbots, but if you're Google or Amazon, or possessed of a very large dead tree library, you'll want Kirtas Technologies' Bookscan (check out the video). If you've ever had to get legacy printed material into a scanning or OCR system, hands-on or just paying the bills, you'll appreciate it. Gadgets like this as well as the search engines' book indexing projects will slowly break down the "Internet Event Horizon" that's made a lot of information created before the mid-1990s invisible to the net.

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