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11-14-2012, 09:42 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,604 Rep:	LXer: Google engineers open source book scanner design Published at LXer: Engineers from Google's Books team have released the design plans for a comparatively reasonably priced book scanner under an open source licence on Google Code. The Verge reports that the engineers developed a prototype during the "20 per cent time" that Google allocates to its employees for personal projects. Built using a scanner, a vacuum cleaner and various other components, the Linear Book Scanner can automatically digitise entire books. Read More...

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