Like a bored child who can’t be bothered to read, this robot flips from page to page. This odd contraption is actually a new way to scan and digitize the world’s books — at a speed of 250 pages per ...

Super scanner and Cornell join Microsoft's project to digitize tomes for the Windows Live Book Search project. Photo: Robotic scanner In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...