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The article does mention that one of the big issues Google encountered was logistics. It's one thing to scan a few dozens/hundreds of books. It's a completely
by jfim 10y ago
The article does mention that one of the big issues Google encountered was logistics.
It's one thing to scan a few dozens/hundreds of books. It's a completely different thing to do it for all books. Assuming you'd want to digitize 100 million books in three years, you'd need to process 91324 books per day, or roughly one book per second, assuming no breaks and 24x7x365 operation.
As the article said, Google poured hundreds of millions of dollars on this, so I'd wager it's not as trivial as it sounds.
- CydeWeys 10y agoThank you. This is not "re-create /r/place in a weekend" territory. This is physical hardware development and a substantial logistical challenge.
- fefesafaea 10y agoFound a video of one of their prototype scanners. IIRC they looked at like every scanning solution available and also got a bunch of universities and libraries to help them purchase and operate scanning equipment. Pretty cool stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhL7qJYzcd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhL7qJYzcd4 edit: Next vid looks good too. In depth on different scanners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuoOaL11bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuoOaL11bw