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

[Pratik Patel]

There are several camera options on the market that will do what you need as
well. Serotek is selling them as alternatives to scanners to sell with their
web based scanning solution. I believe the least expensive one sells for
$250.
 
Regards,
 
Pratik
 
 
From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Dan
Comden
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:03 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Face up scanner similar to Ion Book Saver?
 
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
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAxYrhfyJw&t=0m57s> &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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