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For any moderately large scale book scanning effort: https://hackaday.com/2012/11/16/google-books-team-open-sources-their-book-scanner/ https://hackaday.com/201

• textfiles 3y ago
  That prototype "only" damages 70% of the pages.
  • reaperman 3y ago
    Really? A comment on the page I linked said: > The presenter mentions that about 40% of books scanned have some kind of problem, either a folded or a torn page, but they’ve done some work on preventing problems. Even if every page in 40% of books were damaged, that would only be 40% of pages, not all of them. Although your numbers may be incredibly wrong, your steel-manned assumed thesis is valid: with historical artifacts you can only accept a lower % of damaged pages than human-powered scanning would cause.
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    • textfiles 3y ago
      I assure you, I hate that thing. It has dogged me and the Internet Archive for over a decade. It is not just vaporware, but dangerous.
  • selimthegrim 3y ago
    It must be a Soviet machine for scanning 40% of the pages then.