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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. Tr0ll death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Tr0ll death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      You must respect my duel first posts: here and here.

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  2. More adventures in meta-mod! by MondoMor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't resist! This post, pertaining to the "Fyodor incident" got up-modded. I was given one of the up-mods in my latest meta-mod session.

    By God, you can be sure I marked that sucker "Fair".

    For more on Fyodor, read the journals of Real World Stuff and sllort . There's probably even more. CmdrTaco is deleting posts. He's a hypocritical ass.

    For more on my endless talk of abusing the meta-mod system, see my previous journal entries.

    YHBT. HAND.

  3. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WE'RE GOOD BUDS, RIGHT?

    1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You FAIL It!

      I dump my load on your failure!

  4. But can they also by SpaghettiPattern · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .. flip over the centerfold and choke their chicken?

    --

    I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
  5. Tony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, Tony.. Are you reading this? 8-)
    --
    Pete

  6. I am a lame geek by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and i love sucking geek cock

  7. Old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read LISNews.com if you like these sort of stories, delivered in a more timely manner.

  8. Re:Current Books? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Sure, libraries are allowed to lend copyrighted works but when you have a digital work, how can you lend it? What exactly do you do to return a digital work?

    That's why I think that older books are the only ones that can be checked out digitally.

  9. Re:Current Books? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why was this modded down as flamebait? Moderators: please explain or correct.