Automated Linear Book-Scanning System (ALBS)

The design of an automated linear book-scanning system (ALBS), with several attributes, is proposed in this work. For a start, the moving saddle by a stepper motor can hold up to 3 Kg weight and the system contains a suitably designed channel slot. Such a design is implemented as a new variation on the idea of pneumatic page turning. This involves the use of a vacuum cleaner device to pull book pages into a channel that flips them to the other side of the book, in order to allow two installed scanners to take an instant image of the two exposed pages, convert and successively merge them into a PDF file. The system is simple, economic and serves as a prototype for a consequent production line that would target various libraries and institutional sectors.