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Ivo IOSSIGERPresident

Automatic page Turning

and Scanning Books

Switzerland

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Digitizing Books

• Two goals :– to preserve the content– to provide online access to content

• One value chain :– from paper to digital content

Image Treatment

OCR

DigitizingIndexingContentStorage On Line

Access

papercontent

digitalcontent

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Providing Online Access to Books

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paper content digital images PDF-A files digital content

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The Problem

• The Internet enables anyone from anywhere to access knowledge online

• The largest reservoir of knowledge remains in books and is not online

• Reaction of the young generation

“All that is not online does not exist !”

• Knowledge is imprisoned between pages of books

• Extracting knowledge from books requires to digitize books

• Digitizing a book requires :– turning one by one all pages– presenting pages to a scanner

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The Challenge

• To scan pages with good image quality

• To take care of the book and not damage it during the process

• To manage the variety of :– book formats and page sizes– thick or thin papers– soft or rigid covers– bindings

• To do the job faster and cheaper

... with an automatic solution

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The Automatic Solution

• Automatic process up to 3000 p/h• Automatic measuring of book size• Handles softly the pages &

binding• Constant quality of images• Image resolutions up to 600 dpi• Consistent page pickup and page

turn process• Make sure only one page is turned

at a time• Automatic retry in case of double

page or missed page• Operator needed only to change

to the next book• Direct conversion to searchable

documents (PDF-A)• Suitable for books magazines and

bound newspapers

Digitizing Line

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How to digitize in one year about 10 million pages

or 40'000 books or 100 book shelves or 500 linear meters.

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The Models

Digitizing Line

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