Re: Book Scanner Idea

From: Randall R Randall (rrandall6@juno.com)
Date: Sat Jul 25 1998 - 11:42:01 MDT


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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:38:40 -0700 "Diego A. Mayer-Cantu"
<diego@techstep.com> writes:

>Several close friends of mine are interns at Xerox PARC, and they have
told
>me of a device
>they have there which reproduces books in their entirety. One simply
places
>a book into the machine, and the machine scans and prints every single
page
>and then binds the pages into a new book. (this is all done at very high
>speed btw). The technology is clearly here, all we need to do now is
make
>it readily available to the public :P

Yes, this is mentioned in this month's _Wired_, as well.

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