Here is some information I found when researching Kirtas Technologies.
-October 2006: signed agreement with Microsoft to provide the highest quality digital books available in the world
-Kirtas will scan works for Microsoft's Live Book Search Web-based application and books will become available early next year
-project includes copyrighted material furnished by publisher partners as well as select collections of public domain material provided by library partners
-Kirtas is the fastest robotic book scanner in the world
-machine is the APT BookScan 2400 and software is BookScan Editor PRO that guarantees an overall error rate lower than 1 per 10,000 pages
-2,400 pages can be digitally scanned and stored per hour = about eight minutes per book
Links:
www.kirtas-tech.com/uploads/ other/Kirtas-Microsoft-CUL.pdf
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5015cc2a-5e4f-11db-82d4-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=81cea682-52a8-11da-8d05-0000779e2340.html
Comments (1)
Actually the fastest bookscanner in the world is the DL-3000 made by 4digitalbooks, it can scann 3000 pages per hour. It can also scan larger books that the Kirtas 1200/2400 cannot scan, and it can provide 300 dpi at all book sizes.
Posted by Steve | February 4, 2007 2:56 PM
Posted on February 4, 2007 14:56