The scanner's camera runs at 500 frames per second, and captures rapidly flipping book pages in two modes. First, a regular line shines on the page to capture text and images. The second mode then manages neat the trick of reconstructing the curved, distorted pages in their original form. A laser device projects lines onto each page that the system can use to recreate the 3-D page model and correct the deformed lines.
World's fastest book scanner caught on tape
Posted on Monday, March 22 2010 @ 2:15 CET by Thomas De MaesschalckPopSci reports a researcher at the University of Tokyo has developed a machine that can digitize books at a rate of up to 200 pages per minute. The new method uses a camera system to capture rapidly flipping book pages, it's up to four times faster than other book scanners.
