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Book scanning is the process of converting physical books into electronic books (e-books) via image scanning. This is a much less time-intensive method than re-typing all of the text; before scanning became feasible, re-typing was generally the only option. For physical books to be scanned into e-books, they must be scanned and then have optical character recognition (OCR) or similar methods applied to make the images into text. Alternatively, the books can be stored in an image-type format like DjVu, Portable Document Format (PDF) or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) and Adobe Reader. A chained book in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side, and within protective covers. ...
A user viewing an electronic page on an eBook reading device An e-book (also: eBook, ebook), sometimes called an electronic book, is an electronic (or digital) equivalent of a conventional printed book. ...
Optical Character Recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is a type of computer software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text, or to translate pictures of characters into a standard encoding scheme representing them (e. ...
DjVu (pronounced déjà vu) is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned images, especially those containing text and line drawings. ...
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for desktop publishing use. ...
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Adobe Acrobat Reader running on Debian Adobe Acrobat was the first software to support Adobe Systems Portable Document Format. ...
Commercial book scanners
 Sketch of a typical manual book scanner Commercial book scanners are not like normal scanners; these book scanners are usually a high quality Digital camera with light sources on either side of the camera mounted on some sort of frame to provide easy access for a person or machine to flip the pages of the book. Some models (e.g. BookDrive DIY scanner) involve V-shaped book cradles, which provide support for book spines and also center book position automatically. Image File history File links BookScannerSketch. ...
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In computing, a scanner is a device that analyzes an image, printed text, or handwriting, or an object (such as an ornament) and converts it to a digital image. ...
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The advantage of this type of scanner is that it is very fast, compared to the productivity of overhead scanners. Compared with traditional overhead scanners whose prices normally start from USD10,000 upwards, this type of digital camera-based book scanner is much less expensive.
Book scanning by organisations on a large scale Projects like Project Gutenberg, Google Book Search, and the Open Content Alliance scan books on a large scale. Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works. ...
At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004, Google introduced its Google Print service, now known as Google Book Search. ...
The Open Content Alliance is a consortium of non-profit and for-profit groups which is dedicated to building a free archive of digital text and multimedia. ...
One of the main challenges to this is the sheer volume of books that must be scanned, expected to be in the tens of millions. All of these must be scanned and then made searchable online for the public to use as a universal library. Currently, there are 3 main ways that large organizations are relying on: outsourcing, scanning in house using commercial book scanners, and scanning in house using robotic scanning solutions. A universal library is a library which contains all existing or useful information or knowledge. ...
As for outsourcing, books are often shipped to be scanned by low-cost sources such as India or China. Alternatively, due to convenience, safety and technology improvement, many organizations choose to scan in-house by using either overhead scanners which are time-consuming, or digital camera-based scanning solutions which are substantially faster, and is a method employed by Internet Archive as well as Google. Other less popular methods are by robots to flip book pages as well as cutting off the book's spine and scanning the pages in an scanner with automatic page-feeding capability. ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ...
In computing, a scanner is a device that analyzes an image, printed text, or handwriting, or an object (such as an ornament) and converts it to a digital image. ...
Once it is scanned, the data is either entered manually or via OCR, another major cost of the book scanning projects. For other uses, see Data (disambiguation). ...
Due to copyright issues, most scanned books are those that are out of copyright; however, Google Book Search is known to scan books still protected under copyright unless the publisher specifically excludes them. Copyright symbol Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. ...
At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004, Google introduced its Google Print service, now known as Google Book Search. ...
A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...
See also A number of companies are now manufacturing Robotic Book Scanners. ...
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