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Poztron:
A friend turned me on to this 30-minute video on Youtube that shows a prototype of an automated book scanner that delivers high quality scans and doesn't destroy the original book. In DIY fashion this can apparently be assembled for $1500, but one can easily see where if these were produced in volume, the price would drop considerably. I found it fascinating.  It might require consider customizing to work for comics, but it's not hard to imagine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4JuoOaL11bw

Scanners, check it out.

Meanwhile, back in the present circumstances, we are grateful for all our hard-working scanners who do so much manually and painstakingly.

Yoc:
Thanks P, interesting stuff!

Geo (RIP):
That was very interesting concept there.
I'm wondering how it would work with
some of the comics that the pages are
very brittle, also tears on the pages.

Geo

Poztron:
You are right, Geo, that such a scanner could be a problem with old brittle newsprint. For delicate publications (such as old GA comics) it probably would not be a good route.

narfstar:
cool though

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