Could of cleaned the glass before filming.
Could have checked your grammar before commenting…
Could’ve but didn’t.
Based
Looks like two pages at a time to me.
each piece of paper is a page, since they do the front of one and the back of another at the same time, it’s one page total…
One Sheet, Two Pages A sheet of paper has two sides. Each side is considered one page. So a single sheet of unfolded paper is two pages.
One sheet, two leaves, four pages.
Is that why each sheet of paper has the same page number on both sides in books? Oh wait they don’t.
;)
Way to throw it back on a technicality ✋
c/theydidthemath /s
Wow that seems painfully slow/tedious. Why isn’t it automatized? I think I saw a robot do like 20 pages a second on a yt some years ago.
Google have digitised a lot of books using some more advanced tech, though they started out with something a little like this.
What happened to that in the end? I heard they wanted to digitize the worlds books and then it just petered out at some point and heard nothing about it. Did they continue or was it spun to Internet Archive to do?
My understanding is the project led into Google Books. Google fought many legal cases and ultimately won but their enthusiasm to scan more books seems to have waned. Google basically convinced judges that by only letting people see a few pages, it fell under fair use, but then that meant you didn’t get a giant library because you couldn’t read the whole book.
There’s an article about it here: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-s-effort-to-scan-millions-of-university-library-books
Also see https://www.hathitrust.org/about/ which is mentioned in the article.
That would be interesting to see!
This is probably the method that gives you the best quality (deskewing, lighting) without cutting the back of the book and feeding it into a scanner. (AFAIK)
I saw a book scanner similar to this one that used a vacuum to turn pages but otherwise same principle.
Do you remember the results of those speed scans? Crooked pages, parts of the document cut off, blurry scans, etc.
It was a lazy method that resulted in a lot of junk data.
I think this is what I saw. Not quite 20 pages/s hahah and also a different method.
Can’t you ask the book company for a pdf?
Firefox: Video can’t be played because the file is corrupt.
Chrome: Plays audio only.
Why are we hosting things on such shonky shit?
Shockingly, it plays for me (both a/v) on iOS (in the voyager app)
There is no audio outside of the sound of pages turning and the machine beeping in between so you aren’t missing much in this case
🤘🏻 Voyager app!
I checked and it works fine for me too. In voyager, obviously.
What OS are you on? The video plays fine for me in Firefox on both Windows and Android.
Also I think the codec is more likely to blame than the hosting provider.
Windows 10.
When I download it I can play it in VLC, and according to MediaInfo HEVC encoding.
Is HEVC support not included by default? Chrome should support it, and Firefox shouldn’t support it at all according to the compatibility charts.
Maybe there’s some site bullshittery going on and the site is giving out different versions of the file to different people based on region or something. The file it gives me is 2,661,216 bytes. Is that what you get?
Edit: Works in Edge, although feel like I now have to go wash my hands after firing that up.
Ok I take it back. It plays in Firefox on Android, but not on Windows. Also on Android, it didn’t play at first, I had to refresh. I don’t know what’s going on lol.
I kinda doubt catbox.moe is doing any kind of smart distribution. It’s a pretty simple file hosting site.
Found it. My Chrome has “Hardware-accelerated video decode” disabled. Apparently there’s no software fall back there, so it just claims no knowledge of them.
Kind of sucks that Firefox can’t play them, something to do with licensing.
Kids in university watching this: 😯
Do you really work there?
If so… We love you.
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.
We should start doing charity style TV ads.
“You, too, can help us build page turners and save the lives of dozens of archivists. Just £2 a month will allow Margaret to finally rest.”
Man I got some friends who are archivists, and they’d love that shit lol.
They love their field, but it’s a lot of mind-numbing work
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.
Iirc they did experience with automation before and did get it to copy well…
But like you said, it would damage books pretty frequently. That’s not what you’d want for old and fragile materials which are rather irreplaceable.
Vacuum!
I’d just use a bandsaw to cut off the spine and stick it in a document feeder.
This must be how you get “binders full of women”
Leave that poor woman alone you psycho!
If the book is not that easily available (old, rare), it’s much better to keep it intact.
I don’t often donate since it’s mostly in USD, but internet archive was one of the few that I did.
There are DIY tutorials for that for those interested: https://www.diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html
This is awesome, thanks!
Automatic page turners are unreliable?
Please remember to make a donation to the Internet Archive for the invaluable work they do!
May I bring my son to visit? I know it’s typically only for events. He will crack up at the statues and be underwhelmed by the two racks containing the entire Internet.
That is really cool!
How do you reliably turn pages that fast without accidentally grabbing two pages and skipping? Im impressed!
Meditation practice helps with this kind of thing.
That and your king fu skills as you travel the west in the search for your family’s roots.
It definitely improves your kung fu. But meditation really only activates super small refinements. You gotta build the kung fu before there’s anything for the meditation to sharpen.
Basically it increases the resolution of your sensory streams. I mean, that’s the lowest-level effect of all that time spent focusing on the streaming present.
Tacky-Finger.
