You know how books’ bindings can be ruined when you have to place them on a photocopier or a scanner and press it down so that you get a good scan? Well someone has finally came up with a special book scanner that doesn’t require you to heart-wrenchingly press down your books.
The scanner, called CopiBook. To scan a book’s pages, just place the book on the scanner’s pad, facing upwards. Check out the picture below to see how it works.
This easy to use gadget is also safe from ultraviolet and infrared emissions. For more benefits of this book scanner, read on.
Operates without additional light (ambient light)
- preserves ancient works because of the absence of ultraviolet and infrared,
- operator comfort while digitizing.
Ease of use
- numerous automatic settings included: format detection, resolution, auto focus, exposure time, lighting correction, white balance,
- innovative capture modes: automatic scan start (no clicking, no pedal) and automatic opening of the glass plate at the end of the scan,
- embedded image-enhancement algorithms: finger masking, geometrical correction, detail enhancement, deskew,
- motorized book cradle (CopiBook BW+, RGB+ & HD models).
Highly ergonomic
- a USB pedal can be used to start digitization,
- ideal positioning of function keys and touchpad,
- easy viewing with the LCD screen at operator eye level,
- special keyboard for faster operations.
High image quality
- Optical resolution from 300 ppi to 600 ppi (depending on format and model).
High productivity
- the scanning time of an A2 format (DINA2/C) page, at 300 ppi, is 2.5 seconds in grey scale mode and 6 seconds in color mode (CopiBook BW/L, BW+, RGB/L and RGB+).
Respect for ancient documents (bindings, covers) thanks to the book cradle which allows the plates to be adjusted based on the thickness of the work.
Various backup possibilities: USB output (external hard disk, flash drive) and Giga-Ethernet output (Microsoft network)
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Innovative and great device. Those who want to save their old books and keeping them well, this device plays a good role.
Yeah I agree. But I’m not sure if I have the patience to scan pages after pages…
any idea where we can buy this in Malaysia?
I have not seen this gadget in shops. The only thing I know is that the Malaysian distributor of this French product is a company called Excel Envirotech Resources Sdn Bhd. You can try to look them up.
You won’t find these in shops and you probably wouldn’t be buying one of you did. They run between 40 and 50 thousand. They do work excellently for the most part, although the part about ambient light might be stretching it a little. With a scan time of just a few seconds, you’d be surprised at how quickly you can go through a book.
Where I work at the Digital Library Center at the University of Florida, we have seven of them.
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What??! I had no idea it costs so much! I thought it was probably in the region of a thousand or two. Well for that much money, it’d better scan quickly! Thanks for sharing this info.