Cool stuff from Google on how they optimised a way of scanning books (and published…

Cool stuff from Google on how they optimised a way of scanning books (and published this open source!). 

Reshared post from +Research at Google

The Linear Book Scanner

While working on Google Book Search, Dany Qumsiyeh and Jeff Breidenbach created (and open-sourced!) a new way to scan books.  It was prototyped on the cheap using a vacuum cleaner, some sheets of polished aluminum, and a bit of Python code.  See it in action at Linear Book Scanner.