Off topic, but arguably a related technology: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/high-speed-camera-scans-books-in-seconds/
see this page
http://www.logos.com/features/bookscanner
Floyd, did you just make the link active?
Thanks.
I just copy and past the link from the top of the page in the url box. How can it become active. I know an address like that will go active in Word.
Thanks much Floyd. I got it to work....
Thanks for the link, William. It's interesting to see what Logos uses to help create our libraries.
200 pages/minute is an order of magnitude faster.
Thanks for the link, William. It's interesting to see what Logos uses to help create our libraries. 200 pages/minute is an order of magnitude faster.
I believe that the reason Logos uses the scanner that it has, is because many of the (old) books being scanned are somewhat fragile, and won't stand rough handling. Watching the Logos scanner in operation, you can see that it's a very gentle process.
Me and my wife tried to find the price on one of those machines logos uses but we could not.
From a genealogy website:
"The exact price will vary, depending upon the options selected and the maintenance contract of choice. However, plan on spending a "ballpark" figure of $175,000 (125,000 Euros) per scanner"
Wow!!! Now that is a pricey scanner!! I think I now see why there is some need to charge a little more for books. I am sure given the in-house scholars at Logos along with all this technology that general over head of business is high! I know that my undergraduate alma mater had a technician that normally lived in a different state. They would pay transportation and I think it was 10,000 to get him to come out. This technician worked on a majority of the SEM's in the the country.
Well, another acronym....SEM is Scanning Electron Microscope.
I think I now see why there is some need to charge a little more for books
They would pay transportation and I think it was 10,000 to get him to come out.
I know what you mean, it's a "whole nother level" when you get into equipment repairs like that. My dad use to wok for GE, and they would fly him around the world in the middle of the night to supervise emergency industrial repairs. He was well compensated, but I'm sure it was nothing compared to what GE was charging the companies.
And to think, Logos gives us customer support, and tech support at no extra charge... [Y]
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