Robotic book scanner
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A robotic book scanner is a machine which is used to scan books for upload to digital archives such as Project Gutenberg. They include Atiz Innovation, Kirtas Technologies and 4DigitalBooks. The robotic scanners consist of three parts: a robot to turn the pages; a cradle, or table, to hold the book; and a camera. The camera or the imaging sensor captures an image of each page, as the robot turns the pages of the book. During the process, the book remains intact.
Robotic book scanners are used by many digital library projects, including Google Book Search.
