Comments on: Automated book scanner http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2009/07/27/automated-book-scanner/ Mon, 14 May 2012 13:18:49 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom Ceresini http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2009/07/27/automated-book-scanner/#comment-1810 Tom Ceresini Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:50:48 +0000 http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp/2009/07/27/automated-book-scanner/#comment-1810 For libraries that can't afford a dedicated machine, Lyrasis has the Mass Digitization Collaborative, which will digitize materials for you. Book and newspaper scanning is done by the Internet Archive; support for other formats are in development. Check out http://www.lyrasis.org/Products-and-Services/Digital-Services/Mass-Digitization-Collaborative.aspx for more information about the program and http://www.archive.org/details/lyrasis for a list of currently participating institutions and their content. For libraries that can’t afford a dedicated machine, Lyrasis has the Mass Digitization Collaborative, which will digitize materials for you. Book and newspaper scanning is done by the Internet Archive; support for other formats are in development. Check out http://www.lyrasis.org/Products-and-Services/Digital-Services/Mass-Digitization-Collaborative.aspx for more information about the program and http://www.archive.org/details/lyrasis for a list of currently participating institutions and their content.

]]> By: Todd Whiting http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2009/07/27/automated-book-scanner/#comment-1809 Todd Whiting Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:39:32 +0000 http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp/2009/07/27/automated-book-scanner/#comment-1809 If you are really serious about digitization, may I suggest the KABIS III from Kirtas Technologies. We are able to scan 3,000 pages per hour. We are the world leader in non-destructive digitization. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVIR8HHUsIg If you are interested in digitizing some of your copyright free materials, I suggest you take a look at http://www.kirtasbooks.com. We can take the MARC records from your collections ingest them and make them immediately available for sale. It is a self-sustaining Digitize on Demand/Print on Demand Program with no upfront cost to the content partner. In addition we offer a new patented process "Invest in Knowledge". For $30.00 book lovers can purchase a book that hasn't been digitized, they will receive a paperback copy of the book, and 5% of all subsequent sales. There can be only one investor per book. If you are really serious about digitization, may I suggest the KABIS III from Kirtas Technologies.

We are able to scan 3,000 pages per hour. We are the world leader in non-destructive digitization.

If you are interested in digitizing some of your copyright free materials, I suggest you take a look at http://www.kirtasbooks.com. We can take the MARC records from your collections ingest them and make them immediately available for sale. It is a self-sustaining Digitize on Demand/Print on Demand Program with no upfront cost to the content partner.

In addition we offer a new patented process “Invest in Knowledge”. For $30.00 book lovers can purchase a book that hasn’t been digitized, they will receive a paperback copy of the book, and 5% of all subsequent sales. There can be only one investor per book.

]]> By: Justin http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2009/07/27/automated-book-scanner/#comment-1808 Justin Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:30:56 +0000 http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp/2009/07/27/automated-book-scanner/#comment-1808 Yikes, designing a robot to flip pages without destroying the book is like a project out of Odyssey of the Mind. Sick. Do you ever stop to thing that with every flip of the page, that robot is actually going to destroy libraries at we know them? Yikes, designing a robot to flip pages without destroying the book is like a project out of Odyssey of the Mind. Sick.

Do you ever stop to thing that with every flip of the page, that robot is actually going to destroy libraries at we know them?

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