A scanner "Simply Scan A 3" that can be converted into electronic books without cutting books has appeared, with slight difficulty

Following the succession of e-book ready devices such as Apple's "iPad", Amazon's "Kindle", Sony's "Reader", Sharp's "GALAPAGOS", and various smartphones appearing one after another, A so-called "self-catering" boom, which makes it an e-book reader with a scanner or the like, is beginning to wind up, but the problem was that "a book must be cut".

It will be cutting important books ... because there are complicated things in terms of feelings, but a scanner that can convert books into e-books without cutting in the first place "Simply Scan A3"Has appeared. Although it is quite interesting product, there are points that I have to say that it is somewhat regretful.

Details are as below.
A3-compatible scanner NV-PS 500U Noback

According to familiar NOVAC (Novak) in the external HDD case etc, the company is to release "Simply Scan A3" which can be converted to e-book without newly cutting books from February 18th. Estimated market price is 27,800 yen.

"Simply Scan A 3" is a scanner that scans from the top of the target as if shooting with a digital camera, by connecting to the personal computer and clicking the scan button of the attached software, it scans without worrying about the thickness of the book It is possible. In addition, it supports up to A3 size.

This is the "Simply Scan A3" main unit. You can adjust the length of the arm according to the size to be scanned.


Where we are actually scanning


The flow of work is like this. The camera has about 5 million pixels and the resolution of the file is 96 DPI.


Image when A3 size paper was scanned. Since the file size is large, it is compressed, but the original image isOfficial site specification pageYou can check with.


It seems that it is rather bad product, but the regrettable point is that there is no "distortion correction function of the binding part of the image that shot the book"OCR software to read characters from images is not included and does not support operationThe point. If it is a thick book, the thicker the book is, the greater the distortion becomes. Therefore, if we are trying out the merit of being able to convert the book into an electronic book without cutting it, it is a place I wanted some countermeasure if possible.