Book-Flipping Scanner

bookflipping scanner
founder:	harvie
depends on:
interested:
software license:
hardware license:
status:	planned

This genial machine enables us to digitalize whole book in less than minute. I think we can make some money with this… Imagine that we can offer fast and easy book scanning service for some reasonable price. We can scan 100 books under two hours with minimal cost (well we need ~500 FPS webcam - which is probably expensive)

• http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vision/BookFlipScan/index-e.html
• http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/nakashima/nakashima_uist09.pdf
• http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/23/book-flipping-scanner-lets-you-record-200-pages-in-a-minute-video/
• http://www.bookpatrol.net/2010/03/book-flipping-scanning.html

One video worth thousand words:

• >500 FPS (Web)Camera
  • http://www.fastvideo.ru/english/products/camera/camera.htm
  • http://www.visionresearch.com/
  • http://hd24.com/
    • quote: “Industrial cameras such as NAC and Photron have 1k resolution up to 3000 fps”
• Laser (for image reconstruction)

• 'Standart' Manual scanner is good alternative to lower the cost vastly (but also vastly increase scanning time)
• Lots of resources on this topic: http://www.diybookscanner.org/
• Software
  • http://scantailor.sourceforge.net/
    • will be really cool when version 1.0 (with dewarping function) will arive
    • can be used to produce scans in google books quality using simple camera(s)