You Listening, Google? Rocket-fast Japanese Page-Flipper Could Revolutionize Scanning

How's your speed-reading? Ready to go up against a robot? Here's your chance.

A Japanese laboratory has developed a scanner that can turn pages and scan their contents - text and images - at 1000 frames-per-second with a minimum of distortion.
"The system could be used to speed up the digitization process of low-cost e-books and other library data," reports plasticpals, a website devoted to all things robotic.

"The camera uses lights connected to a synchronized control circuit and a laser range projector to estimate the three-dimensional page geometry. This allows it to correct any distortion from the page being turned while at the same time flashing it with uniform, ideal lighting. The 3D data can even be reproduced on a computer."

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