Stanford’s 1k page/hr book scanning robot

Mon, 12 May 2003 14:00:00 -0400
/technology

Fantastic milestone on the way to universal digitisation of the world’s knowledge.

For Mr. Keller the most vexing challenges are neither labor costs nor technology. Librarians, he said, must find a way to address the copyright restrictions that appear to be tightening as a result of new federal laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

And people wonder why there are so many libertarians on the Internet.

Another project, led by the Internet Archive in San Francisco, recently shipped 80 tons of old books acquired from the Kansas City Library to Hyderabad, India, where they will be scanned, according to Michael Lesk, a former National Science Foundation official and digital library expert who works with the archive.

Excellent.