Super-fast book scanner digitizes a book within minutes | robaid.com - Rob Aid presents robots, gadgets. tech and bionics

 Complete with  a little demonstration manual. I would have thought that there was already such a thing...

Scanning a book manually, page by page, is a slow, mind-numbing task. In order to solve this problem, Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa from the University of Tokyo (we also wrote about his baseball robot), and his lab members Takashi Nakashima and Yoshihiro Watanabe, created a super-fast book scanner. The system lets you scan a book by rapidly flipping its pages in front of a high-speed camera. They call this method book flipping scanning.

Super-fast book scanner digitizes a book within minutes | robaid.com - Rob Aid presents robots, gadgets. tech and bionics