The bookdrive pro enables bound publications to be scanned at the rate of up to 700 pages per hour, without the need for page curvature. With our vshaped cradle, you can convert book into ebook or pdf. If youve ever wanted to scan the content of every single one of your books, for insurance in case of a flood or something else as equally compulsive, the new booksnap book scanner from atiz. Bookdrive capture atiz book scanners, digitization. Procured from some reliable vendors of the market, our offered scanner is manufactured use premium grade components and sophisticated technology. This device can be used for scanning marine publications with specific characteristics such as oversized or undersized books, very fragile or rare copies, and historical works. Integrated data solutions completed a rush project of bound book scanning for a global entertainment publisher.
If you have a spare old digicam, though, you can make a permanent scanning station, which. Compare bookdrive models see which bookdrive is right for your project. Once you have the settings right for a given book, all you have to do is give the command to capture. The as new atiz professional book scanner was purchased for a specific project and was only used briefly by our team of professionals. Feb 14, 20 tech how we built a diy book scanner with speeds of 150 pages per minute a kit, online forums, and an ikealike manual made diy scanning easier than expected. Is there a low cost alternative to an automatic atiz book. Atiz designs book drives, the worlds best book scanners. First consumer book ripper is now available from atiz innovation.
Bookdrive mark 2 lite the most popular book scanner of the world leader in book scanning. More than books, the versatile bookdrive n is great for scanning bound and unbound materials such as artwork, maps, photos, journals, newspapers or pretty much anything. There is an alternative, which is to take pictures of the pages with a digital camera. The project details a wooden platform onto which any camera can be screwed. Ultimately, we purchased a bookdrive pro2 scanner from atiz corporation3. Simply insert the usb dongle to the computer that you want to run, the software will run. The atiz bookdrive mark 2 is a dual camera v cradle imaging system capturing images of books and other print materials, without risk of damage to the item during scanning. It uses digital cameras and a book cradle to allow one to generate images that software can combine into a pdf of a book. So if you would like to make an offer im happy to sell o. Allied images have large format scanners to scan all types of large originals including plans, maps and artwork. The most important aspect of any digitization project is.
Report on the installation of the atiz bookpro scanner at the college of health sciences chs library 2nd february 2015 implementation team introduction following the supply of one 1 atiz book scanner and accessories to the college by the chinese phase ii project and the subsequent submission of action plan for its installation to. The atiz bookdrive mark 2 is a dualcamera v cradle imaging system capturing images of books and other print materials, without risk of damage to the item during scanning. Double click on the bookdrive capture 6 icon on the project. Jun 24, 20 the atiz bookdrive mini is a highly capable choice for scanning books and other bound material with pages up to 10 by 15 inches. Nondestructive book scanning process that converts books, booklets, magazines, journals, year books and other bound documents into digital formats, pdf, word. Instead of wasting the better part of your life scanning the books one page at a time, or practically destroying them in order to accomplish the task faster, turn your sights to the atiz bookdrive book scanner. Atizs innovative book scanning solutions dramatically reduce overall conversion time and project costs.
Eofy offers highend display and digitisation equipment. Atiz bookdrive pro datacomit scanning, digitisation. Putting a book on a flatbed scanner can damage the binding too. New book scanner from atiz geared towards consumers. For less critical books, semidestructive book scanning involves carefully cutting the bindings so that the pages can be scanned on a higher speed, sheetfed or flatbed scanner. A utility to help with book scanning using cameras as a scanner. Press one button to scan both left and right pages and have the images rendered on screen immediately. News releases fall 2008 december 2008 integrated data solutions completes over 100,000 scans from 120 bound books. I was not sure if the scanner and its software would meet all the needs i had for my book collection but it has exceeded my expectations. I have 4 flatbed scanners and two page scanners running 8 hours a day, 6 days per week, year round. At first, we were hesitant to release this model to market because atiz has always been known as maker of vshaped scanners. Atiz bookdrive pro atiz bookdrive pro one of the best in professional book scanning, the bookdrive pro enables bound publications to be scanned at the rate of up to 700 pages per hour, without the need for page curvature correction or causing book spine stress. Digital books can be easily distributed, reproduced, and read onscreen.
We have put many of the scanner photographs into a gallery which links back to the original forum threads. The bookdrive n was originally developed for a largescale project in japan where its national library national diet library wanted to scan the nations collections of invaluable items such as journals and other materials with great cultural value, the project was very successful. Jul 15, 20 you may not need a scanneror, for that matter, a computerto get highquality photo scans. The modernday copy stand for the discerning archivists. When i started this project in 2009, there was almost no useful information on the internet about how to design, build, and operate a book scanning machine. The atiz bookdrive mini is a highly capable choice for scanning books and other bound material with pages up to 10 by 15 inches. I have not used any other of the media types but the book but i might soon since it was easy. Book scanning or book digitization is the process of converting physical books and magazines. Dozens of people have posted design ideas, photos of their projects, and even complete plans in our forum. If anyone has seen this equipment, please post a comment and let us know what you think about it.
Atiz bookdrive mark 2 lite book scanner, digitization. Atiz software works on windows only 7 32bit and 64bit, vista and xp. Bookdrive mark 2 the most popular book scanner of the world leader in book scanning. In settings tab, you configure the scan settings of the project such as file naming, the page sequence or if you want the program to rotate the files for you instantly. Simple scanning solution enables digitization and management of bound content quickly and affordably. The idea of book scanning has captured the imaginations of people all over the world. I have found this item for sale at an absolutely ridiculously low price from a company that must have liquidated. The output from bookdrive will work great with all ocr programs in the market such as abbyy finereader and nuance omnipage. Atiz innovation has unveiled a new low cost book scanning solution, bookdrive pro, which can scan upwards of 700 pages per hour. Book scanning service scan book to pdf digitizing book. The simple faceup scanning feature allows you to protect book bindings and fragile documents, plus the ps5000c mkii gives a wide array of autoimaging features to make scanning simple. Move the item folder into the to be scanned box on the desktop.
How much does a atiz bookdrive pro high resolution book. Lessons learned from a digital archive project colorado law. The unique shape is designed so that the user can cleanly scan books face down without. Contrary to conventional scanners, books are placed in a vshaped book cradle, which prevents damage to the publications. The sudden death of the law schools dean was the catalyst for this project, with a goal. In order to digitize the belgian marine literature, the flanders marine institute has installed a book scanner in the vlizlibrary. Faceup scanning bookdrive diy employs a unique vshaped book cradle and transparent platen to help protect bindings scanning is performed without laying books out flat and applying undesirable or unnecessary force to bindings and save time handling is kept to a minimum as pages can be turned without having to flip the book over each time. More than books, the versatile bookdrive n is great for scanning bound and unbound materials such as artwork, maps, photos, journals, newspapers or. How we built a diy book scanner with speeds of 150 pages per. Atiz announces the introduction of nms imaging of silver spring, md as their usa partner company. Atizs bookdrive mini has allowed chalmette high school to assist our alumni to view yearbooks that they had lost to hurricane katrina. Our extensive range of large format scanners are now available to rent. The camera used would impact the quality of the digital images.
Datacomit products book scanning atiz bookdrive pro atiz bookdrive pro one of the best in professional book scanning, the bookdrive pro enables bound publications to be scanned at the rate of up to 700 pages per hour, without the need for page curvature correction or causing book spine stress. You can install the software on as many pcs as you want. A start up wizard lets you choose whether you want to scan a new book or resume scanning recent books. If youve ever wanted to scan the content of every single one of your books, for insurance in case of a flood or something else as equally compulsive, the new booksnap book scanner from atiz might. At first, atiz were hesitant to release this model to market because atiz has always been known as maker of vshaped scanners and did not want to change those perceptions. The bookdrive n was originally developed for a massively largescale project in japan where its national library national diet library wanted to scan nations collections of invaluable items such as journals and other materials with great cultural value. Datacomit is offering all customers the opportunity to purchase a stateoftheart book scanner for mass digitisation. This is the first scanner truly designed to scan bound materials. The planetary book scanner the second phase of book scanning technology is the planetary book scanner. List of book scanner manufacturers also known as book copiers or book savers listed in alphabetical order 4digitalbooks.
Technologies software project planning resources for library faculty and staff toggle dropdown. Manual for digitization with atiz scanner and software. Atiz bookdrive pro datacomit scanning, digitisation and. By combining digital slr cameras with a unique vshaped book cradle, bookdrive pro is gentle on books and eliminates curvature problems to produce highresolution scans.
The new usb dongle upgrades have elevated atizs system to a greater level of excellence. It is easy to use and i am able to add a few more categories that i wanted to know about each book. All atiz scanners or the software from within the past 7 years come with a usb dongle flash drive. This scanning solution pioneered by atiz has become so successful that it is widely embraced even by competitors. It will automate things such as cropping, rotating, fixing keystoning, fixing the dpi, and outputing it to tiff files that can be changed into pdfs or ebooks. With a precise understanding of the relevant industry, we introduce ourselves as the leading trader and supplier of book drive pro scanner that is a perfect solution to solve typical problems found in overhead scanners.
Were working on a complete book scanning operating system, with all free software. This kind of book scanner works well enough, but having to scan one page. The most important aspect of any digitization project is image quality. Scanning with this kind of book scanner is a lot faster and easier than with the flatbed kind. Bookdrive mini 2 great for scanning sheet materials such as art, maps, photos, journals, and newspapers. The specifications and instructions are freely available. Incorporated in 2005, atiz was established to give the library market a highperformance alternative to existing technologies. Whether it is for a short term project or for extra capacity the rental may be the option to choose.
Our company started up selling a revolutionary product atiz book drive family the worlds first and only desktopsized, pageturning scanner that eliminates manually copying and scanning documents. Bookdrive diy is a costeffective book digitization solution that combines the power of digital slr cameras and the ingenuity of a unique vshaped, autoadjusting book cradle and platen to capture sharp images at up to 700 pages an hour. The konica minolta ps5000c mkii is a fast, highquality book scanner for large originals and 3d objects up to 2 high. The scanner model is widely used and has for instance also been selected for the mass scanning operations of the biodiversity heritage library consortium. Scanning with this kind of book scanner is a lot faster and. A dualcamera v cradle imaging system captures images of books and print materials, without risk of damage to the items being scanned. With our vshaped cradle, you can convert book into ebook or pdf easily. A 350 page yearbook, however, presents a bit of a challenge.
Tech how we built a diy book scanner with speeds of 150 pages per minute a kit, online forums, and an ikealike manual made diy scanning easier than expected. Atiz bookdrive pro professional book scanner youtube. You may not need a scanneror, for that matter, a computerto get highquality photo scans. Learn about our ongoing project scanning ancient texts for yivo. Is there a cheap book scanner you can buy or easily build that will. The first thing you need to know about the atiz bookdrive mini is that its. This includes the stereo data maker software for the cameras, postprocessing software, utilities, ocr packages, and so on. Best book scanners and scanning solutions for mass digitization. All our products are procured from the reliable vendor in the market. Our book scanner trusted by the worlds top institutions. So you want to digitize maximizing the value of a digitization project. Nov 15, 2007 new book scanner from atiz geared towards consumers i just received this press release and have not had time to investigate it. Auto capture switch integrated for scanning without pushing buttons. How we built a diy book scanner with speeds of 150 pages.