Automatic page Turning and Scanning Books Switzerland Ivo

Automatic page Turning and Scanning Books Switzerland Ivo IOSSIGER President 4 Digital. Books 1

Digitizing Books • Two goals : – to preserve the content – to provide online access to content • One value chain : – from paper to digital content Digitizing Image Treatment OCR Storage paper content Indexing Content On Line Access digital content 4 Digital. Books 2

Providing Online Access to Books paper content digital images 4 Digital. Books PDF-A files digital content 3

The Problem • • • The Internet enables anyone from anywhere to access knowledge online The largest reservoir of knowledge remains in books and is not online Reaction of the young generation “All that is not online does not exist !” Knowledge is imprisoned between pages of books Extracting knowledge from books requires to digitize books Digitizing a book requires : – turning one by one all pages – presenting pages to a scanner 4 Digital. Books 4

The Challenge • To scan pages with good image quality • To take care of the book and not damage it during the process • To manage the variety of : – book formats and page sizes – thick or thin papers – soft or rigid covers – bindings • To do the job faster and cheaper . . . with an automatic solution 4 Digital. Books 5

Digitizing Line The Automatic Solution • • • Automatic process up to 3000 p/h Automatic measuring of book size Handles softly the pages & binding Constant quality of images Image resolutions up to 600 dpi Consistent page pickup and page turn process Make sure only one page is turned at a time Automatic retry in case of double page or missed page Operator needed only to change to the next book Direct conversion to searchable documents (PDF-A) Suitable for books magazines and bound newspapers 4 Digital. Books 6

How to digitize in one year about 10 million pages or 40'000 books or 100 book shelves or 500 linear meters. 4 Digital. Books 7

The Models Digitizing Line DL 1500 DL 1800 DL 3000 4 Digital. Books 8

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