BFS-Auto Scans Books at Over 250 Pages per Minute
Ishikawa Group Laboratory · Demo · 1 min · 2012 · YouTube title: BFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/min
Why it's here
HN commenters bring it up in book-scanning threads as an impressive non-destructive method that is not commercially available.
What it covers
A University of Tokyo lab demonstrates a book scanner that flips pages automatically and scans over 250 pages per minute. It uses real-time 3D recognition of the flipped pages and then restores each one to a flat image.