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I was interested to see how they solved automated page turning... but none of the designs appear to address this? Sounds like a repetitive motion injury waitin
by jerdthenerd 3y ago
I was interested to see how they solved automated page turning... but none of the designs appear to address this?
Sounds like a repetitive motion injury waiting to happen after you get done scanning Fountainhead.
- cf1241290841 3y agoFully automatic ones do exist, but its generally not done to not risk damage to the books. And without ocr of page numbers you always risked missing pages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvM-tjrS2-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvM-tjrS2-U That said, a lot of automation processes in place do destroy the book by cutting the spine and scanning it.
- westurner 3y ago"Ask HN: What's the best out-of-box Document OCR/Analyzing/recognition API?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38829242 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38829242 ; BetterOCR : > Better text detection by combining multiple OCR engines (EasyOCR, Tesseract, and Pororo) FWIU there's a way to image multiple stacked sheets of ancient scrolls without unrolling them?