摘要 |
<p>The book scanner includes a wedge shaped member with a pair of angularly splayed surfaces extending from an apex, upon which a partially opened book may be supported with its spine adjacent the apex and opposite pages adjacent the surfaces. The scanner uses 2-dimensional array detectors attached, either rigidly or rotatably, at a common edge on the wedge, with the detectors located on the wedge surfaces. The opposite edges of the arrays are housed in a base, which may support a backlight for illumination of the book pages. Read-out electronics output the image data stored in the detectors. Pref. the detectors are electrically coupled so that there is a single logical scanning surface.</p> |