The Internet Archive has been digitizing books for many years and recently passed two million volumes. To do this work, the Internet Archive invented a scanner and the software which runs it. The Scribe scanner is used at their scanning centers around the world. The Archive notes:
We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way--one page at a time.
They have posted a 40-second video of one of their Scribe scanners in action. The video is available on Facebook and Twitter. A big smile crossed my face watching it, given the beginnings of this blog was in digitization. Sadly, I could not get it to embed here.
I've written about the Internet Archive in the past, including their digitization efforts. You can access past Internet Archive posts here.
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