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BFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/min

Ishikawa Group Laboratory · demo · Watch on YouTube

Computer vision, speech & NLPRobotics

What it is

A University of Tokyo lab demonstrates a book scanner that flips pages automatically and scans over 250 pages per minute. It uses real-time 3D recognition of the flipped pages and then restores each one to a flat image.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters bring it up in book-scanning threads as an impressive non-destructive method that is not commercially available.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “very very impressive but to my knowledge not commercially available”

    Astonishing 250 pages/min book scanner.

    grumpyfox96, 2024-01 · Strong recommendation · in “DIY Book Scanner”

  2. “The University of Tokyo seems to have a pretty good one”

    High-speed automated book digitizing from University of Tokyo.

    ebcode, 2018-09 · Recommendation · in “Simple Thought Experiment Shows Why We Need Quantum Gravity”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: book digitization, page flipping, 3d sensing, university of tokyo, scanner

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