This is a BFS (breath first search) auto, robotic book digitizer, which can scan nearly 250 pages in one minute. Japan researchers had developed this scanner at the University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Oku Laboratory.
There is a high speed page flipper and which flips the pages automatically after the scan and this is the flipper.
And there is camera which scans the pages at a faster rate… This system continuously observes 3D deformation of the each flipped page at 500 times per second, and recognizes the best moment for book image digitization at the highest quality using the newly constructed original algorithm in real-time.the high-definition camera captures the document so that both high-speed and high-definition performance is realized. The definition performance is enhanced to 400 pixels per inch.
This is system has:
high-speed fully-automated page flipping,
real-time 3D recognition of the flipped pages,
and high-accuracy restoration to a flat document image…
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