Re: Nearly OT: Professional book scanner

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message zMudndaZy8Sg7cvYnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@comcast.com">news:zMudndaZy8Sg7cvYnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@comcast.com...
: 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!


ACK!!!  Could we please spell VOILA! properly. :o)

William Garber
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