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Google's Book Scanning Technology Revealed
blee37 writes "Last March we discussed Google's patent for a rapid book scanning system. This article describes and provides pictures of how the system works in practice. Google is secretive, but the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchers who wrote a research article on essentially identical technology. There are also videos of robotic page flippers and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages."
Can RTFA for me
Nullius in verba
human type book into PC, machine print book on paper, machine binds book ---time goes by--- machine unbind book, robot and human flip pages of book, machine photograph book, machine put book on PC.
Cape Cod ladies don't use no books -
Haul away, haul away!
Well they read their stories on robotic Nook®s
and we're bound away for Australia!
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
...and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages.
...you will know it is time to turn the page when Tinkerbell rings her little bells like this...
Yaz.
Google's book scanning technology? Two guys and an Epson V500.
#DeleteChrome
I built one to turn a couple of rare automotive books into PDF so I dont damage a $180.00 book in the garage.
Great, so now you can damage a $1800 laptop instead?
XBMC | Pulse-Eight
It involves pigeons, doesn't it?
The enemies of Democracy are
Maybe he is running Acrobat Reader in Vista
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Brilliant idea!
Make it so!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Yeah, but Johnny Five was ALIVE!
which means that if you can't do it now, you'll probably be able to do it on your cell phone in 10 years.
I can't solve the TSP for 1000 cities on my desktop computer today, but I suspect in 10 years time I'll be able to solve it on my mobile phone.