Those who attend the American Library Association’s midwinter conference this month will see a curious machine -- a lecternlike bookstand with robot arms that pass vacuum wands over the pages. It is a ...

I was a bookworm when I was a kid, reading almost a book a day. I lived overseas, and English books were hard to come by, so I devoured any I could find. Though this was long before I knew anything ...

Most people think of scanners as that quaint mechanism that looks like an old photocopier on the printer, or an independent flatbed ideal for capturing receipts. But in commercial terms, there are two ...

Bookshelves today are simply not as appealing as they used to be, and there’s no shortage of people looking to digitize their own book collections. Fortunately, we now have easy and relatively ...

Plustek’s V100 BookReader device has just hit the computer peripherals scene, and though it’s innovative, it’s certainly some strange fruit. It’s an advanced optical scanner device that has optical ...

Using the awesome and powerful Raspberry Pi 2 mini PC Jonathon Duerig has created an automated book scanner allowing you to easily transform those all the paper printed versions you might own into ...

Plustek Announces Digital Book Scanner with Searchable PDF Functionality; Enables Fast Digital Conversion of Books for Full-Text Search and Simplified Image Retrieval ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...