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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. moron phonIE ?pr? stock markup felon.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FUDge synthesizing blogs. yuk.

  2. I am a geek by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and i love to suck cock

  3. Re:Current Books? by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, I didn't mean to suggest that unlimited copying of copyrighted works should be allowed. My thought was that if we look at how the RIAA has behaved - attacking legitimate users of distribution networks, then a library which is giving out digital copies of works that are past the copyright period, could receive those pesky cease and desist orders from an RIAA-like body. Of course now we're getting into the realm of copyright and the fact that Disney's mouse is going to be theirs forever...thus making my blood boil; so I'll stop this post here before someone has to invoke Godwin's law on me.

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