Linear Book Scanner

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Recommends fefesafaea · 2017-04 · on “Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The Tragedy of Google Books”

Found a video of one of their prototype scanners. IIRC they looked at like every scanning solution available and also got a bunch of universities and libraries to help them purchase and operate scanning equipment. Pretty cool stuff. [LINK] edit: Next vid looks good too. In depth on different scanners. [this video]

Cites rryan · 2015-10 · on “Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project”

Google developed a system called the "cheese grater" and open-sourced the plans / design: [this video] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]

Cites rckoepke · 2020-09 · on “How to digitize your lab notebooks”

Interesting. I had been led to believe that Google used a linear book scanner towards the end of the big Google Books library scanning project. It looks like this may have been an internal prototype that wasn't necessarily used for large-scale scanning opert [this video] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]

Cites dredmorbius · 2021-12 · on “50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021”

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