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Book-Digitizing Robots

Posted by michael on from the reading-over-my-shoulder dept.

Makarand writes "Robotic digitization systems are the new help available to complete voluminous scanning tasks. Robots that can turn the pages of books and newspaper volumes and attain scanning speeds of more than 1000 pages/hour are now available. They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages!"

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  1. Re:I'm all for democracy, of course... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This Keller is an elitist American Asshole and should go back to reading his books. The idiots want democracy by force, the elitists want democracy by education. The only things that they both have in common is that they believe that the countries that need it don't deserve is, and they both don't believe that a country wouldn't want such a precious gift.

    Here's a hint, it's Africa. They can't eat books!

  2. Re:Freedom 'Bots by TitanBL · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Igbo had tribal councils - good for them - espically impressive in contrast to their surrounding cultures which are more represenative of overall African culture.
    http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/peopl e/Igbo.htm l

    America is a republic not a democracy. That being said, whom do you propose Americans look too for guidence? Africa? Europe? U.N.? Ha.

    Pragmatically, the American goverment is the best example of "democracy"/capitalism to date. Not to mention that the U.S. is the oldest national "democracy" in exsistence. Maybe these the reasons why the US constitution (federalism) has been the model by which the majority of exsisting free nations based their goverments (france, germany, canada, tiawan, spain, russia, ...)

    Kinda interesting link:
    http://www.freedevelopers.net/