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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. Puffs of compressed air to seperate sticky pages? by Crazieeman · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Guess that clinches it. We can finally digitize every Playboy printed.

  2. Interesting, but... by Kozz · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages"
    I can see where this would have been useful at one time, but don't we all get our pr0n on the web these days?

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  3. Great! by grub · · Score: -1, Redundant


    They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages!

    Why they'd want to scan in my pr0n mags is anyone's guess.

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  4. Perfect labour for robots by InterruptDescriptorT · · Score: -1, Redundant

    They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages

    Finally! Project Gutenberg will be able to archive every issue of the Playboy magazines I donated!

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  5. More... by seangw · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...inpuuuuut. C'mon, I'm not the only one who imagined that Short Circuit scene?

  6. Sticky Pages by Obiwan+Kenobi · · Score: -1, Redundant

    They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages!

    This will go a long way in digitizing Playboy collections around the world.

    *cough*

    1. Re:Sticky pages by Herz · · Score: 0, Redundant

      And they can cope with the sticky pages too!

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  7. Re:Scanned pages by brarrr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I saw it too, several years ago. It's working title was Johny-5.

    The silly thing claimed to be alive, so someone from hollywood thought it would make for a heartwarming story and made a movie out of it.

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  8. sticky pages!! by slyguy420 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages!"

    they are going to need more than compressed air to unstick the Pr0n mags! ;)

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  9. Johnny Five is alive! by Marco_polo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    More Input!

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