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BFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/min

Ishikawa Group Laboratory · 1.3M views · 2012-11-17 · 1:00

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Overview

A University of Tokyo lab demonstrates a book scanner that flips pages automatically and scans over 250 pages per minute. It uses real-time 3D recognition of the flipped pages and then restores each one to a flat image.

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HN commenters bring it up in book-scanning threads as an impressive non-destructive method that is not commercially available.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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Computer vision, speech & NLPRobotics
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book digitizationpage flipping3d sensinguniversity of tokyoscanner

What people said

grumpyfox96 · 2024-01 · Strong recommendation

There is this classic – very very impressive but to my knowledge not commercially available and probably never commercialized. 250 pages/min is astounding. [VIDEO]

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ebcode · 2018-09 · Recommendation

Do you happen to know if any of this mysterious researcher's papers might be on the arxiv? And have you looked into automated digitizing machines for your collection? The University of Tokyo seems to have a pretty good one: [VIDEO] :)

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ortusdux · 2024-01 · Reference

I do enjoy the various methods of automatic page turning used by book scanning machines. None of them are simpler than a toy robot arm and a cheap USB webcam! - Flipping - [VIDEO] - Arm with suction - [LINK] - Linear vacuum (google) - [LINK] - Vacuum prism scanner (40+ ppm!) - [LINK]

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