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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Very Rapid Book Scanning

Have recently taken a look at how to get printed data from books and manuals into a database. There are some new methods that look to make in volume operations of this type easier:

From IEEE Spectrum:
' Scanning a book manually, page by page, is a slow, mind-numbing task. Google has had some ideas on how to speed up the process, but apparently these methods are still limited by how fast human hands can position a book's pages before an image-capturing system.

Google, meet Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo. Ishikawa is well known in robotics circles for his Matrix bullet time-style amazing demos -- like a robo-hand that can dribble a ball and catch objects in midair with superhuman dexterity. How he does it? A Super Vision Chip (that's what he calls it) that can "see" events too fast for the eye ... '

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