We so appreciate your efforts, but ya’ll need more funding so you can start working smart and not hard. From the looks of things, I see no reason why page flips can’t be automated there.
I just made a donation. Please use it to save this poor woman from the tedious task you’ve shown us today.
I think this is one of those things that seems like it should be easy to automate, but actually has lots of hidden complexity.
They probably don’t use this to scan commonly available books, because for those you can just cut the spine off the book and scan the pages in a regular scanner.
This is likely used for books that need to be preserved and can’t be damaged during the scanning process.
How do you make a machine that will always turn exactly one page and never tear a page, while adapting for different page sizes and thicknesses, and avoiding the static charge that can make pages stick together? All for less money than it costs to pay people to operate this machine.
I’d just use a bandsaw to cut off the spine and stick it in a document feeder.
If the book is not that easily available (old, rare), it’s much better to keep it intact.
Looks like two pages at a time to me.
Why not run the spine through a table saw and just use a regular document feeder?
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True that. In my defense, I was envisioning overpriced text books destined for landfills not priceless works.
