14 DAY TRIAL // The Google Print project is stirring a lot of interest and not only for those who are directly involved, editors and libraries, but also for the companies which regard the technological challenges the project implies as an opportunity to develop new equipments.
Since the task of scanning hundreds of thousands of books is not exactly easy, Kirtas Technologies has decided to launch a device which could be the perfect solution for those that want to compete against Google Print.
APT Bookscan 1200 is a device which is specifically designed to transform books into electronic files and its capabilities are quite impressive: 1200 pages per hour. In addition, APT Bookscan flips the pages one by ones.
Practically, any book measuring 11 x 17 cm or 27 x 35 cm can be placed in the Bookscan and in a few hours, it will be available in TIFF, JPEG or PDF formats. Moreover, the optical system is "trained" for 177 languages.
Lotfi Belkhir, the company's CEO, told AFP that so far, the company's clients have transformed over 3.6 million pages into electronic files and there haven't been any major problems.
The Kirtas Technologies official site contains a video demo of APT's functioning procedure.
APT Bookscan measures 84 x 76 x 122 cm, weighs 77 kilograms and is priced at 120,000 Euros.
Since last week, IBM announced a printer with an output of 330 pages per minute, compute how long it will take for these two devices to copy an entire library.
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