If digitizing a historic collection of books is important to you or your local historical society or library you can purchase a commercial book scanner for around a hundred thousand dollars or make ...

Like any learned individual, [Justin] has a whole mess of books. Not being tied to the dead-tree format of bound paper, and with e-readers popping up everywhere, he decided to build a low-cost book ...

[Daniel Reetz] spent six years working as a Disney engineer during the day and on his book scanner, the archivist at night. Some time last year, [Daniel] decided enough is enough, got married, and ...

I have to admit that while this looks interesting, and I do love ebooks (I love my physical books as well), the very thought of converting my library makes me cringe. All said (novels, reference, ...

For nearly two years, Daniel Reetz dreamed of a book scanner that could crunch textbooks and spit out digital files he could then read on his PC. Book scanners, like the ones Google is using in its ...

Google wants more and more people to scan and digitize books. According to Hack A Day, Google has released plans for a do-it-yourself book scanner. It uses two image sensors taken from a desktop ...

So you want to be the next Google. You've hooked yourself up with a sweet search algorithm, set up the server farm, and have AJAX out the wazoo. Now it's time for the nitty gritty like book scanning, ...

When the Visigoths burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad staterooms. The is ...

This weekly roundup takes a look at the practical and sometimes quirky aspects of tech products. Scanner tackles books Anyone who has ever tried to flatten a book to make copies will appreciate the ...

Ion Audio is probably best known for creating those nifty turntables that help those of us who own vinyl records to conveniently convert them into a digital file format. Now, the company has used its ...

LINKED IN WITH... Marissa Mayer, who oversees Google’s controversial book-scanning project and other efforts. Ms. Mayer, vice president for search products and user experience at Google, says the ...

Professor Ishikawa Komuro's Tokyo lab is better known for robot hands that can dribble and catch balls and spin pencils between their fingers. Now, two researchers have taken this speedy sensing tech ...