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Originally Posted by chorpler
That is the coolest thing ever. But I wonder -- is it any faster than scanning a book with a flatbed scanner? That's what I've been doing when converting my books to digital format (for personal use only, of course!) for the last 12 years. It takes about a half-hour per 100 pages of book, I would say, for black and white 300DPI scanning. Greyscale ups the time to about 1.5 hours per 100 pages. Naturally, color considerations are an area where a setup like yours, with digital cameras, would be hugely advantageous.
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Thanks!
Actually I came up with the idea that something like this must be possible when stuck scanning a book in a flatbed scanner, which took a number of hours. Photographing the pages takes substantially less time than scanning, because the cameras photograph the whole page at once whereas the scanner has to sweep across the whole page. Even if it takes just as much time and effort to turn pages, that near-instant capture will easily speed you up many times over.
As it turns out, turning the pages is actually faster using the book ripper than it is when using a scanner.
So yeah, if you have a current speed of 100 pages/hour, getting that into the 600+ pages/hour range is very possible.
What kind of things are you doing with the scanned images once you have them? OCR or some image-based ebook conversion?