Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:Hi folks, I wanted to share something I saw in the news recently: A professional high-end book scanner, that scans a complete book in mere minutes(!): http://www.kirtas-tech.com/ And no, I'm not affiliated with this company, but I find it most impressive.I'll bet the price is equally so. When vendors are that coy about posting dollar amounts, I have to believe it's a case of "if you have to ask, you can't afford it..". Still, I'd love to be proved wrong!
At the risk of infringing a patent or two, it doesn't look like it would be that hard to build. Two digital cameras, pneumatics to hold pages, a servo to do the turning...a microcontroller or two, and viola! -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."