Ask Aubry 🦝How books get scanned.
My dumbass always pictured an old librarian with gloves at the copy/scanning machining having to redo it over and over because it scanned crooked.
Óli Gneisti (English)I don't think there are many scanners like this. Since most books that are scanned at libraries are older and therefore delicate it is often a camera taking a top down photo of the pages.
I have used a book scanner with this basic structure but not automatic. I had to manually lift the thing up, turn the page, lower the thing down and press a button for the cameras. It is slow compared to this but it was much faster than other methods.
Gerard@oligneisti @Ask_aubry while reducing contact with the page is probably good for it, the disadvantage of the 'flat' approach is that the book has to be fully opened. Old books are often bound in a way that allows for that, but the nice thing about this machine is that the book doesn't have to be fully opened.