This is Really cool
Google has been scanning millions of books all along trying to digitize as many as it possibly can. It is so serious about capturing and indexing the knowledge stored in books that it has a patent, which was issued on March 24, 2009, on how to scan books faster than was previously possible.
The basic technique it uses involves two infrared cameras which determine how flat or curved each page to be scanned is and then adjusting the optical character recognition software it uses to read the text accordingly. In other words, the infrared cameras help figure out a book’s three-dimensional shape and then back out any resulting distortions. This results in much faster book scanning since each page doesn’t need to be flattened by glass plates and spines don’t need to be broken.
well now i guess we need a new and more breakthru in the reading technologies like ebook readers :)
w ya min yi2ra ! ... it would be fun if you guys share your reading list heik heik fata7na l hadis :P and are you comfy reading on the laptop or you prefer a good old paper book ?
Google has been scanning millions of books all along trying to digitize as many as it possibly can. It is so serious about capturing and indexing the knowledge stored in books that it has a patent, which was issued on March 24, 2009, on how to scan books faster than was previously possible.
The basic technique it uses involves two infrared cameras which determine how flat or curved each page to be scanned is and then adjusting the optical character recognition software it uses to read the text accordingly. In other words, the infrared cameras help figure out a book’s three-dimensional shape and then back out any resulting distortions. This results in much faster book scanning since each page doesn’t need to be flattened by glass plates and spines don’t need to be broken.
well now i guess we need a new and more breakthru in the reading technologies like ebook readers :)
w ya min yi2ra ! ... it would be fun if you guys share your reading list heik heik fata7na l hadis :P and are you comfy reading on the laptop or you prefer a good old paper book ?
