Japanese Researchers Develop World’s Fastest Book Scanner

March 17, 2010 · Print This Article

An anonymous reader writes “IEEE Spectrum reports that Tokyo University researchers have developed a superfast book scanner that uses lasers and a high-speed camera to achieve a capture rate of 200 pages per minute. You just quickly flip the book pages in front of the system and it digitizes the pages, building a 3D model of each and reconstructing it as a normal flat

page. The prototype is large and bulky, but whether that thing could be made smaller, one day we could scan a book or magazine in seconds using a smartphone.” The editorial mentions Google’s similar dewarping system; the difference here is speed.