New book scanner From Atiz
New book scanner From Atiz
April 8, 2009:
Atiz Innovation has unveiled a new low cost book scanning solution, BookDrive Pro, which can scan upwards of 700 pages per hour.
By combining digital SLR cameras with a unique v-shaped book cradle, BookDrive Pro is gentle on books and eliminates curvature problems to produce high-resolution scans.
It provides automatic centre positioning to ensure consistent borders and lessen manual intervention; a double security locking mechanism; distortion-eliminating even light distribution and standard auto capture to simplify the whole process.
Additionally, BookDrive Pro has the ability to scan oversized books -- up to A2, newspaper size -- and heavy, cumbersome items such as deed registries."Everybody has bound content that needs to be scanned," noted Nick Warnock, president of Atiz. "With BookDrive Pro, Atiz gives organizations the option of bringing digitisation projects in house, allowing them to choose what is scanned as well as control the sometimes sensitive content -- all while saving money by not having to outsource these projects."
"When new, improved camera models become available, users need only to replace their cameras -- not the entire scanning system as is the case with other offerings," explained Warnock.In addition to book spine damage and low productivity, conventional or overhead scanners also produce curved page images and rely on software to correct resultant curvature problems. This approach has proven to produce poor, often unreliable results. Atiz has taken a different approach, and BookDrive Pro eliminates the need for page curvature correction, making it faster and less expensive than other offerings. The combination of a v-shaped book cradle and transparent platen which sets the book in an angled position for scanning by high-speed, high resolution digital SLR cameras is a unique design that guarantees sharp, flat-looking pages in every scan.
Included with BookDrive Pro is Atiz's proprietary software package: BookDrive Capture and BookDrive Editor Pro. BookDrive Capture allows for the simultaneous capturing of images. The software supports SLR cameras manufactured by Canon. BookDrive Editor Pro allows for image editing functions such as the ability to batch crop, deskew, despeckle, color adjustment, TIFF conversion, and the output of eBooks in PDF format.