[HN Gopher] Robot scans rare library books at 2.5k pages per hour
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       Robot scans rare library books at 2.5k pages per hour
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-07-21 20:09 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | https://utulsa.edu/news/mcfarlins-new-scanrobot-protects-rar...
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       | https://www.treventus.com/scanner/automatic-book-scanner
        
       | B5C8ECB24DB47D1 wrote:
       | Illustrated by a video from 14 years ago!
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | That whisker/finger thing for the page is interesting, wonder if
       | it ever accidentally moves more than 1 page
        
       | _fs wrote:
       | Maybe the "authors" should spend more time checking this ai
       | written slop for errors.                 But whereas it might
       | take a single librarian days or weeks to scan a single book, the
       | ScanRobot 2.0 can handle up to 2,500 per hour.
        
       | baxuz wrote:
       | Is this new? I remember doing an essay on it some 15 years ago.
        
         | 5555624 wrote:
         | It's their latest version. Per their web site, TREVENTUS won
         | the "European Union "ICT Grand Prize 2007" for the invention of
         | its automatic book scanner ScanRobot(r) and received an award
         | of EUR200,000."
        
       | kvemkon wrote:
       | > at 2,500 pages per hour
       | 
       | 600 or 300 dpi?
        
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