THE VIDEO SHELF · high-speed book scanning
BFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/min
A University of Tokyo lab demonstrates a book scanner that flips pages automatically and scans over 250 pages per minute. It uses real-time 3D recognition of the flipped pages and then restores each one to a flat image.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters bring it up in book-scanning threads as an impressive non-destructive method that is not commercially available.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Ishikawa Group Laboratory
- Topic
- high-speed book scanning
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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There is this classic – very very impressive but to my knowledge not commercially available and probably never commercialized. 250 pages/min is astounding. [VIDEO]
grumpyfox96 on Hacker News · 2024-01
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ebcode on Hacker News · 2018-09
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