[Athen] Face up scanner similar to Ion Book Saver?

[Doug Hayman]

I'd gotten one for a participant last year.  I was impressed with how you 
could turn the page and the detection of that movement triggered the next 
snapshot and OCR.  It was not only a quick setup but also a pretty fast 
conversion process.  With scanners there is that initiation/warm-up then 
the slow scanning pass per page on a personal scanner.



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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Dan Comden wrote:


> Doug Hayman brought up in a message that didn't make it to the list that

> FreedomScientific has the Pearl scanner that will do what you want, I

> believe.

> http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/openbook/openbook-whats-new.asp

>

> I have not seen it in action. FS has it listed for $600 without software,

> $1600 with OpenBook

>

> I like the DIY option that Gaeir mentioned.

>

> -*- Dan

>

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Todd Schwanke <

> tschwanke at studentlife.wisc.edu> wrote:

>

>> ATHEN:

>>

>> Today I found out about the Ion Book Saver scanner that was announced last

>> year.  But, soon after that I found out that it also isn't going to go into

>> production.  It was to be a face up, v-shaped bound book scanner that scans

>> both pages at once.  You have to manually lift the scanning device out of

>> the book and turn the page manually.  Here's a Youtube video that shows a

>> preview version at last year's Consumer Electronic Show.

>>

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAxYrhfyJw&t=0m57s

>>

>> This was supposed to be less than $200.

>>

>> Does anyone know of a similar device (face up and simultaneous dual page

>> scanning) on the market at a reasonable price?  The alternatives that I am

>> aware of are in the range of 10's of thousands of dollars to $100,000 plus.

>>

>> Thanks, Todd

>> UW-Madison

>>

>>

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