Computer systems have helped catalogue libraries for decades, but if some reckless reader has put a book back in the wrong spot, it's a daunting task for librarians to search the entire building for ...

Researchers in Japan have built a commercial book scanner capable of blasting through 250 pages-per-minute, meaning it can fully capture your average novel in under 60 seconds. Put another way, it ...

Like a bored child who can’t be bothered to read, this robot flips from page to page. This odd contraption is actually a new way to scan and digitize the world’s books — at a speed of 250 pages per ...

Super scanner and Cornell join Microsoft's project to digitize tomes for the Windows Live Book Search project. Photo: Robotic scanner In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and ...

This article was taken from the January 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

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 ...

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 ...

A super scanner and a major university have agreed to work on Microsoft's book digitization project. Kirtas Technologies, a maker of high-speed scanners and digitization software, signed a deal ...