<article>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#article10_01_07_1845259</id>
	<title>Google's Book Scanning Technology Revealed</title>
	<author>kdawson</author>
	<datestamp>1262892720000</datestamp>
	<htmltext>blee37 writes <i>"Last March we discussed Google's <a href="//hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/05/15/1834246/How-Googles-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-De-Warps-Pages">patent for a rapid book scanning system</a>. This article describes and provides pictures of <a href="http://scitedaily.com/googles-book-scanning-technology-revealed/">how the system works in practice</a>. Google is secretive, but the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchers who wrote a research article on essentially identical technology. There are also videos of robotic page flippers and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages."</i></htmltext>
<tokenext>blee37 writes " Last March we discussed Google 's patent for a rapid book scanning system .
This article describes and provides pictures of how the system works in practice .
Google is secretive , but the system 's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchers who wrote a research article on essentially identical technology .
There are also videos of robotic page flippers and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages .
"</tokentext>
<sentencetext>blee37 writes "Last March we discussed Google's patent for a rapid book scanning system.
This article describes and provides pictures of how the system works in practice.
Google is secretive, but the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchers who wrote a research article on essentially identical technology.
There are also videos of robotic page flippers and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages.
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686620</id>
	<title>Re:What will the Jews think about this?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262897700000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Flamebait</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>You know what the most dangerous thing in America is, right? Nigger with a library card.</htmltext>
<tokenext>You know what the most dangerous thing in America is , right ?
Nigger with a library card .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>You know what the most dangerous thing in America is, right?
Nigger with a library card.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686442</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30689606</id>
	<title>Nothing to see here</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262871180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Offtopic</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Just posting to undo a moderation mistake, nothing to see here.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Just posting to undo a moderation mistake , nothing to see here .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Just posting to undo a moderation mistake, nothing to see here.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686442</id>
	<title>What will the Jews think about this?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262896980000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Flamebait</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Jews hate it when niggers learn to read. An educated nigger is a dangerous animal.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Jews hate it when niggers learn to read .
An educated nigger is a dangerous animal .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Jews hate it when niggers learn to read.
An educated nigger is a dangerous animal.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687492</id>
	<title>Re:We used to call them "Service Bureaus"</title>
	<author>Monkeedude1212</author>
	<datestamp>1262858640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>There are ALOT of books out there which would NOT be suitable for this method. A friend of mine in University for Museum Studies often has to read these books which are incredibly old. I believe the University has a couple that date somewhere around the 1830's which is older than the books you find in the historical village we have in town.</p><p>Yes, the university lets you read books that are old enough to belong in a museum. She showed me one of them one time. It was like a manuscript, Thick leather binding, nothing written on the front, heavy faded pages. I almost couldn't believe it.</p><p>Sadly, that was the most exciting part of it. The writing was dryer than a desert, and it was on some subject that I had zero interest in. They are supposedly starting to go ALL digital, so I have no idea what they're going to do with those old books and mansucripts they've got sitting around.</p><p>I hope they don't destroy them.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>There are ALOT of books out there which would NOT be suitable for this method .
A friend of mine in University for Museum Studies often has to read these books which are incredibly old .
I believe the University has a couple that date somewhere around the 1830 's which is older than the books you find in the historical village we have in town.Yes , the university lets you read books that are old enough to belong in a museum .
She showed me one of them one time .
It was like a manuscript , Thick leather binding , nothing written on the front , heavy faded pages .
I almost could n't believe it.Sadly , that was the most exciting part of it .
The writing was dryer than a desert , and it was on some subject that I had zero interest in .
They are supposedly starting to go ALL digital , so I have no idea what they 're going to do with those old books and mansucripts they 've got sitting around.I hope they do n't destroy them .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>There are ALOT of books out there which would NOT be suitable for this method.
A friend of mine in University for Museum Studies often has to read these books which are incredibly old.
I believe the University has a couple that date somewhere around the 1830's which is older than the books you find in the historical village we have in town.Yes, the university lets you read books that are old enough to belong in a museum.
She showed me one of them one time.
It was like a manuscript, Thick leather binding, nothing written on the front, heavy faded pages.
I almost couldn't believe it.Sadly, that was the most exciting part of it.
The writing was dryer than a desert, and it was on some subject that I had zero interest in.
They are supposedly starting to go ALL digital, so I have no idea what they're going to do with those old books and mansucripts they've got sitting around.I hope they don't destroy them.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686886</id>
	<title>Executive summary</title>
	<author>93 Escort Wagon</author>
	<datestamp>1262855700000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Google's book scanning technology? Two guys and an Epson V500.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Google 's book scanning technology ?
Two guys and an Epson V500 .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Google's book scanning technology?
Two guys and an Epson V500.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686362</id>
	<title>Join GNAA Today!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262896560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Offtopic</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Where have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone?<br>Long time passing<br>Where have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone?<br>Long time ago<br>Where have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone?<br>Girls have picked them every one<br>When will they ever learn?<br>When will they ever learn?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Where have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone ? Long time passingWhere have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone ? Long time agoWhere have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone ? Girls have picked them every oneWhen will they ever learn ? When will they ever learn ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Where have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone?Long time passingWhere have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone?Long time agoWhere have all the page-lengthening and page-widening posts gone?Girls have picked them every oneWhen will they ever learn?When will they ever learn?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687060</id>
	<title>Lemme guess...</title>
	<author>Chris Burke</author>
	<datestamp>1262856540000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>It involves pigeons, doesn't it?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It involves pigeons , does n't it ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It involves pigeons, doesn't it?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686746</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262855040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>When the book is closed, the ink from facing pages will be mashed together, shouol you will need to be able to tell which page the ink is attached to. Since the ink mostly sits on top of the paper (if it soaks through you wouldn't be able to read the other side veery well) it is a very thin layer. Your scanning technology would need to be able to sense very small volumes of ink. I don't think we are anywhere close to the necessary precision yet.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>When the book is closed , the ink from facing pages will be mashed together , shouol you will need to be able to tell which page the ink is attached to .
Since the ink mostly sits on top of the paper ( if it soaks through you would n't be able to read the other side veery well ) it is a very thin layer .
Your scanning technology would need to be able to sense very small volumes of ink .
I do n't think we are anywhere close to the necessary precision yet .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>When the book is closed, the ink from facing pages will be mashed together, shouol you will need to be able to tell which page the ink is attached to.
Since the ink mostly sits on top of the paper (if it soaks through you wouldn't be able to read the other side veery well) it is a very thin layer.
Your scanning technology would need to be able to sense very small volumes of ink.
I don't think we are anywhere close to the necessary precision yet.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30689404</id>
	<title>Re:Missing the point?</title>
	<author>jonaskoelker</author>
	<datestamp>1262869320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>How can you have a patent without divulging the crucial information?</p></div><p>By not playing fair.  I'm sure there are lots of companies who deal in IP who can teach you about doing this.  In particular, I hear the music, film and software industry players are good at this.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>How can you have a patent without divulging the crucial information ? By not playing fair .
I 'm sure there are lots of companies who deal in IP who can teach you about doing this .
In particular , I hear the music , film and software industry players are good at this .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>How can you have a patent without divulging the crucial information?By not playing fair.
I'm sure there are lots of companies who deal in IP who can teach you about doing this.
In particular, I hear the music, film and software industry players are good at this.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686598</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686464</id>
	<title>Google wants to help humans.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262897040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Thank you, kind overlord!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Thank you , kind overlord !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Thank you, kind overlord!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30697362</id>
	<title>Page flipping is hard</title>
	<author>Animats</author>
	<datestamp>1262977380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>
It's surprisingly hard to automate page-turning.  I saw the first page-turning machine many years ago, at the Census Bureau.  It was used for 1970 Census form booklets, and used a vacuum belt to hold the booklet down while a wheel with vacuum holes rolled over the page to turn the page.  This only worked for booklets with known dimensions, and it was rather rough on the booklets.  But it was fast, doing about two flips a second.
</p><p>
It's such a boring job for humans that they screw up.  A hand appears in the picture, or they turn two pages. So you need automation, or at least automated error checking.
</p><p>The problem with mechanism design is making it both fast and gentle.  There are lots of things that will work at one page every five seconds.  Getting to two pages a second and never tearing one is tough.  Most of the existing designs are simplistic; they're just some dumb mechanism making a repetitive motion with an air picker.  The book-scanning developers haven't progressed to closed-loop force control yet.
</p><p>
<a href="http://www.festo.com/" title="festo.com">Festo</a> [festo.com], the German robotics and actuator company, could probably build a better page turner.  They build a wide range of machines which handle delicate objects fast in production environments.  Their <a href="http://www.festo.com/net/de\_de/downloads/Download.ashx?lnk=29123/Tripod\_en.pdf&amp;force=1" title="festo.com">Bionic Tripod with Fin-Gripper</a> [festo.com] is an example.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It 's surprisingly hard to automate page-turning .
I saw the first page-turning machine many years ago , at the Census Bureau .
It was used for 1970 Census form booklets , and used a vacuum belt to hold the booklet down while a wheel with vacuum holes rolled over the page to turn the page .
This only worked for booklets with known dimensions , and it was rather rough on the booklets .
But it was fast , doing about two flips a second .
It 's such a boring job for humans that they screw up .
A hand appears in the picture , or they turn two pages .
So you need automation , or at least automated error checking .
The problem with mechanism design is making it both fast and gentle .
There are lots of things that will work at one page every five seconds .
Getting to two pages a second and never tearing one is tough .
Most of the existing designs are simplistic ; they 're just some dumb mechanism making a repetitive motion with an air picker .
The book-scanning developers have n't progressed to closed-loop force control yet .
Festo [ festo.com ] , the German robotics and actuator company , could probably build a better page turner .
They build a wide range of machines which handle delicate objects fast in production environments .
Their Bionic Tripod with Fin-Gripper [ festo.com ] is an example .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
It's surprisingly hard to automate page-turning.
I saw the first page-turning machine many years ago, at the Census Bureau.
It was used for 1970 Census form booklets, and used a vacuum belt to hold the booklet down while a wheel with vacuum holes rolled over the page to turn the page.
This only worked for booklets with known dimensions, and it was rather rough on the booklets.
But it was fast, doing about two flips a second.
It's such a boring job for humans that they screw up.
A hand appears in the picture, or they turn two pages.
So you need automation, or at least automated error checking.
The problem with mechanism design is making it both fast and gentle.
There are lots of things that will work at one page every five seconds.
Getting to two pages a second and never tearing one is tough.
Most of the existing designs are simplistic; they're just some dumb mechanism making a repetitive motion with an air picker.
The book-scanning developers haven't progressed to closed-loop force control yet.
Festo [festo.com], the German robotics and actuator company, could probably build a better page turner.
They build a wide range of machines which handle delicate objects fast in production environments.
Their Bionic Tripod with Fin-Gripper [festo.com] is an example.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687180</id>
	<title>Re:Video of book scanner...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262857080000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Oh God, I've just watched book porno. First they show you the parts of the book scanner slowly, like you're undressing it with your eyes. Then, the protruding scanning mechanism rhythmically penetrates the pages of the prone, inviting book. And then, to top it all off, they present to us an unreasonably large book that takes it from the scanner. What porno is complete without an unreasonably large member? I'm sure that there is a librarian somewhere pleasuring herself to this.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Oh God , I 've just watched book porno .
First they show you the parts of the book scanner slowly , like you 're undressing it with your eyes .
Then , the protruding scanning mechanism rhythmically penetrates the pages of the prone , inviting book .
And then , to top it all off , they present to us an unreasonably large book that takes it from the scanner .
What porno is complete without an unreasonably large member ?
I 'm sure that there is a librarian somewhere pleasuring herself to this .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Oh God, I've just watched book porno.
First they show you the parts of the book scanner slowly, like you're undressing it with your eyes.
Then, the protruding scanning mechanism rhythmically penetrates the pages of the prone, inviting book.
And then, to top it all off, they present to us an unreasonably large book that takes it from the scanner.
What porno is complete without an unreasonably large member?
I'm sure that there is a librarian somewhere pleasuring herself to this.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686328</id>
	<title>Now my PC</title>
	<author>bugs2squash</author>
	<datestamp>1262896380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext>Can RTFA for me</htmltext>
<tokenext>Can RTFA for me</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Can RTFA for me</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687878</id>
	<title>Not "music" -- just a "tone"</title>
	<author>AthanasiusKircher</author>
	<datestamp>1262860620000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>There are also videos of robotic page flippers and information about <b>how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages</b>.</p></div><p>From TFA:</p><p><div class="quote"><p>The patent describes how <b>a musical tone can be played from the speakers at regular intervals</b> to give the operator a pace to flip pages to.</p></div><p>Not sure what this means, but what is the difference between a "musical tone" and a "tone"?  Probably none, except a pleasant timbre with a pitch.  From the description, it likely just means a pleasant-sounding "beep" or "ding" or something that recurs at intervals so people know when it's safe to turn the page.
<br> <br>
In any case, hardly "using music" to encourage page-flipping -- which brings up weird images of people "Sweatin' to the Oldies" while turning pages for Google.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>There are also videos of robotic page flippers and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages.From TFA : The patent describes how a musical tone can be played from the speakers at regular intervals to give the operator a pace to flip pages to.Not sure what this means , but what is the difference between a " musical tone " and a " tone " ?
Probably none , except a pleasant timbre with a pitch .
From the description , it likely just means a pleasant-sounding " beep " or " ding " or something that recurs at intervals so people know when it 's safe to turn the page .
In any case , hardly " using music " to encourage page-flipping -- which brings up weird images of people " Sweatin ' to the Oldies " while turning pages for Google .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>There are also videos of robotic page flippers and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages.From TFA:The patent describes how a musical tone can be played from the speakers at regular intervals to give the operator a pace to flip pages to.Not sure what this means, but what is the difference between a "musical tone" and a "tone"?
Probably none, except a pleasant timbre with a pitch.
From the description, it likely just means a pleasant-sounding "beep" or "ding" or something that recurs at intervals so people know when it's safe to turn the page.
In any case, hardly "using music" to encourage page-flipping -- which brings up weird images of people "Sweatin' to the Oldies" while turning pages for Google.
	</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30688154</id>
	<title>manga...</title>
	<author>icegreentea</author>
	<datestamp>1262861880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>The University of Toyko's version is demo'd using a manga... go figure. The high-speed camera approach is also really cool. Reminds me of that TNG episode (yeah yeah, I know) where the aliens built that casino/hotel based on a book for that astronaut... Picard hands the novel over to Data and asks him to summarize. Data just flips through all the pages in like 3 seconds and spews out the madness.</htmltext>
<tokenext>The University of Toyko 's version is demo 'd using a manga... go figure .
The high-speed camera approach is also really cool .
Reminds me of that TNG episode ( yeah yeah , I know ) where the aliens built that casino/hotel based on a book for that astronaut... Picard hands the novel over to Data and asks him to summarize .
Data just flips through all the pages in like 3 seconds and spews out the madness .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The University of Toyko's version is demo'd using a manga... go figure.
The high-speed camera approach is also really cool.
Reminds me of that TNG episode (yeah yeah, I know) where the aliens built that casino/hotel based on a book for that astronaut... Picard hands the novel over to Data and asks him to summarize.
Data just flips through all the pages in like 3 seconds and spews out the madness.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30690940</id>
	<title>Re:We used to call them "Service Bureaus"</title>
	<author>swillden</author>
	<datestamp>1262886240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>That's insufficiently destructive.

</p><p>They should use the method from Vernor Vinge's novel "Rainbow's End", where the books are fed into what is essentially a giant chipper/shredder.  The shredded pages are then blown through a tunnel studded with cameras, swirled around so that every side of every piece of paper is photographed at some point, and then all of the images are reassembled to form complete images of every page.  At the end of the tunnel is an incinerator which burns the shredded paper.

</p><p>The books are <b>gone</b>.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>That 's insufficiently destructive .
They should use the method from Vernor Vinge 's novel " Rainbow 's End " , where the books are fed into what is essentially a giant chipper/shredder .
The shredded pages are then blown through a tunnel studded with cameras , swirled around so that every side of every piece of paper is photographed at some point , and then all of the images are reassembled to form complete images of every page .
At the end of the tunnel is an incinerator which burns the shredded paper .
The books are gone .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>That's insufficiently destructive.
They should use the method from Vernor Vinge's novel "Rainbow's End", where the books are fed into what is essentially a giant chipper/shredder.
The shredded pages are then blown through a tunnel studded with cameras, swirled around so that every side of every piece of paper is photographed at some point, and then all of the images are reassembled to form complete images of every page.
At the end of the tunnel is an incinerator which burns the shredded paper.
The books are gone.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687068</id>
	<title>We used to call them "Service Bureaus"</title>
	<author>kriston</author>
	<datestamp>1262856600000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Back when we called them "Service Bureaus" book scanning was fast, easy, and cheap, as long as you didn't want the book back.</p><p>You deliver your book, magazine, phone book, map, large format document, or whatever to a Service Bureau.<br>They will then use a paper saw and cut the binding off and the other three sides to make perfectly smooth edges.<br>Then they put the whole mess into a hopper.  The hopper feeds the pages to a scanner.<br>When it's done, flip the pile over and put it back into the hopper to get the odd-numbered pages into the scanner.</p><p>What you get back is your original book (as a pile of pages with no binding) and a CD-ROM of its contents in both original TIFF and OCRd text files.  Now you can get them as PDF/A and DejaVu formats.</p><p>I suppose Google's point is that they don't want to ruin the books, or maybe they are so proud of their 3D-scanner enough to use it at all costs.  But think of this: there are usually several thousands, perhaps millions, of copies of the books I've seen in Google's library, so destroying one copy of the book seems fair enough.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Back when we called them " Service Bureaus " book scanning was fast , easy , and cheap , as long as you did n't want the book back.You deliver your book , magazine , phone book , map , large format document , or whatever to a Service Bureau.They will then use a paper saw and cut the binding off and the other three sides to make perfectly smooth edges.Then they put the whole mess into a hopper .
The hopper feeds the pages to a scanner.When it 's done , flip the pile over and put it back into the hopper to get the odd-numbered pages into the scanner.What you get back is your original book ( as a pile of pages with no binding ) and a CD-ROM of its contents in both original TIFF and OCRd text files .
Now you can get them as PDF/A and DejaVu formats.I suppose Google 's point is that they do n't want to ruin the books , or maybe they are so proud of their 3D-scanner enough to use it at all costs .
But think of this : there are usually several thousands , perhaps millions , of copies of the books I 've seen in Google 's library , so destroying one copy of the book seems fair enough .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Back when we called them "Service Bureaus" book scanning was fast, easy, and cheap, as long as you didn't want the book back.You deliver your book, magazine, phone book, map, large format document, or whatever to a Service Bureau.They will then use a paper saw and cut the binding off and the other three sides to make perfectly smooth edges.Then they put the whole mess into a hopper.
The hopper feeds the pages to a scanner.When it's done, flip the pile over and put it back into the hopper to get the odd-numbered pages into the scanner.What you get back is your original book (as a pile of pages with no binding) and a CD-ROM of its contents in both original TIFF and OCRd text files.
Now you can get them as PDF/A and DejaVu formats.I suppose Google's point is that they don't want to ruin the books, or maybe they are so proud of their 3D-scanner enough to use it at all costs.
But think of this: there are usually several thousands, perhaps millions, of copies of the books I've seen in Google's library, so destroying one copy of the book seems fair enough.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686458</id>
	<title>Build your own....</title>
	<author>Lumpy</author>
	<datestamp>1262897040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Simply set up a rig with 2 digital cameras and a plexiglass V to photograph 2 pages at a time. It's quite fast and cheap.</p><p><a href="http://www.diybookscanner.org/" title="diybookscanner.org">http://www.diybookscanner.org/</a> [diybookscanner.org]</p><p>Works great.   I built one to turn a couple of rare automotive books into PDF so I dont damage a $180.00 book in the garage.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Simply set up a rig with 2 digital cameras and a plexiglass V to photograph 2 pages at a time .
It 's quite fast and cheap.http : //www.diybookscanner.org/ [ diybookscanner.org ] Works great .
I built one to turn a couple of rare automotive books into PDF so I dont damage a $ 180.00 book in the garage .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Simply set up a rig with 2 digital cameras and a plexiglass V to photograph 2 pages at a time.
It's quite fast and cheap.http://www.diybookscanner.org/ [diybookscanner.org]Works great.
I built one to turn a couple of rare automotive books into PDF so I dont damage a $180.00 book in the garage.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686372</id>
	<title>MRI technology?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262896620000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I often wondered if it would be possible for a book to be scanned while closed, using some kind of MRI technology that digitally sliced the book page by page, picking up on the density difference between the ink and the paper slice by slice.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I often wondered if it would be possible for a book to be scanned while closed , using some kind of MRI technology that digitally sliced the book page by page , picking up on the density difference between the ink and the paper slice by slice .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I often wondered if it would be possible for a book to be scanned while closed, using some kind of MRI technology that digitally sliced the book page by page, picking up on the density difference between the ink and the paper slice by slice.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686602</id>
	<title>Video of book scanner...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262897580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY" title="youtube.com" rel="nofollow">on youtube.</a> [youtube.com]</p><p>The link is slashdotted so I'm not sure if this is the same technology mentioned ITF...</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>on youtube .
[ youtube.com ] The link is slashdotted so I 'm not sure if this is the same technology mentioned ITF.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>on youtube.
[youtube.com]The link is slashdotted so I'm not sure if this is the same technology mentioned ITF...</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30688710</id>
	<title>Short Circuit</title>
	<author>thenextstevejobs</author>
	<datestamp>1262864400000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Johnny Five had no problem flipping pages and scanning them back in 1986. I don't see what the big deal is here.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Johnny Five had no problem flipping pages and scanning them back in 1986 .
I do n't see what the big deal is here .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Johnny Five had no problem flipping pages and scanning them back in 1986.
I don't see what the big deal is here.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687174</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>TooMuchToDo</author>
	<datestamp>1262857080000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>MRI machine is only going to need one pass around the book. The rest of the work is the data processing. Costs would have to come down *drastically* though for this to be feasible on a large scale. Probably still much cheaper to cut the bindings off books and run them through a high-speed scanner.</htmltext>
<tokenext>MRI machine is only going to need one pass around the book .
The rest of the work is the data processing .
Costs would have to come down * drastically * though for this to be feasible on a large scale .
Probably still much cheaper to cut the bindings off books and run them through a high-speed scanner .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>MRI machine is only going to need one pass around the book.
The rest of the work is the data processing.
Costs would have to come down *drastically* though for this to be feasible on a large scale.
Probably still much cheaper to cut the bindings off books and run them through a high-speed scanner.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686700</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687460</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>bill\_mcgonigle</author>
	<datestamp>1262858460000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><blockquote><div><p> <i>Your scanning technology would need to be able to sense very small volumes of ink.</i></p></div> </blockquote><p>Maybe not.  If you do something like a spiral CT, perhaps at multiple angles, you might be able to build a 3d volumetric model based solely on the statistical interpretation of the data points.  Along a given ray you know the ink density, and if there are enough rays you could figure out the real possible solutions.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Your scanning technology would need to be able to sense very small volumes of ink .
Maybe not .
If you do something like a spiral CT , perhaps at multiple angles , you might be able to build a 3d volumetric model based solely on the statistical interpretation of the data points .
Along a given ray you know the ink density , and if there are enough rays you could figure out the real possible solutions .</tokentext>
<sentencetext> Your scanning technology would need to be able to sense very small volumes of ink.
Maybe not.
If you do something like a spiral CT, perhaps at multiple angles, you might be able to build a 3d volumetric model based solely on the statistical interpretation of the data points.
Along a given ray you know the ink density, and if there are enough rays you could figure out the real possible solutions.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686746</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30690560</id>
	<title>in this economy</title>
	<author>deodiaus2</author>
	<datestamp>1262881380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I am sure that in this worldwide depression, Google can easily find people willing to carefully place and turn books for $1/day.  Sugar cane farmers in S. America work for $1/day.  I would think being a book scanner would be a highly sought after position.   Si Senor, the room has AC to keep the books comfortable?</htmltext>
<tokenext>I am sure that in this worldwide depression , Google can easily find people willing to carefully place and turn books for $ 1/day .
Sugar cane farmers in S. America work for $ 1/day .
I would think being a book scanner would be a highly sought after position .
Si Senor , the room has AC to keep the books comfortable ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I am sure that in this worldwide depression, Google can easily find people willing to carefully place and turn books for $1/day.
Sugar cane farmers in S. America work for $1/day.
I would think being a book scanner would be a highly sought after position.
Si Senor, the room has AC to keep the books comfortable?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686388</id>
	<title>Librarian Chantey</title>
	<author>\_Sprocket\_</author>
	<datestamp>1262896680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea\_shanty" title="wikipedia.org">Sea Shanties</a> [wikipedia.org] were sung in association with ship-board tasks (often repetitious in nature).  Is Google paving the way for the Librarian chantey?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Sea Shanties [ wikipedia.org ] were sung in association with ship-board tasks ( often repetitious in nature ) .
Is Google paving the way for the Librarian chantey ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Sea Shanties [wikipedia.org] were sung in association with ship-board tasks (often repetitious in nature).
Is Google paving the way for the Librarian chantey?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687590</id>
	<title>Re:We used to call them "Service Bureaus"</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262859060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>rare like the <i>Necronomnomnomicon</i>? <br> <br>
plus, it probably screams when you try to saw the covers off.</htmltext>
<tokenext>rare like the Necronomnomnomicon ?
plus , it probably screams when you try to saw the covers off .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>rare like the Necronomnomnomicon?
plus, it probably screams when you try to saw the covers off.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687282</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686390</id>
	<title>Not too surprising</title>
	<author>nametaken</author>
	<datestamp>1262896680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Looks kinda like this guys machine:<br><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1747201/The-DIY-Book-Scanner?art\_pos=3" title="slashdot.org">http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1747201/The-DIY-Book-Scanner?art\_pos=3</a> [slashdot.org]</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Looks kinda like this guys machine : http : //hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1747201/The-DIY-Book-Scanner ? art \ _pos = 3 [ slashdot.org ]</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Looks kinda like this guys machine:http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/13/1747201/The-DIY-Book-Scanner?art\_pos=3 [slashdot.org]</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30707608</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>EdZ</author>
	<datestamp>1263056340000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>You've been reading Inherit The Stars, haven't you.</htmltext>
<tokenext>You 've been reading Inherit The Stars , have n't you .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>You've been reading Inherit The Stars, haven't you.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686372</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30694576</id>
	<title>I dont care anymore</title>
	<author>hesaigo999ca</author>
	<datestamp>1262967000000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I was very closely following this project having know the project team lead and talked to him about different projects he had going for the library deal. I remember 8 years ago talking to him about how he was accomplishing the scanning part of it, he told me they even created their own scanning software.</p><p>Today I saw the coolest little gadget that some homebrew tinkerer made, covered on<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/. a month ago, don't have link sorry....<br>and he used 2 cheap cameras and a big ass metal frame meant to keep the book open and then flip the pages hydrolically...or something like that....this makes more sense and is much more cost effective for you and me....then use pdf to take all the images and place them in pdf format, voila!</p><p>Since then, I don't even want to bother hearing about this project, as I know it cost millions of software dev. and hardware creation, and this other guy did his under 1000$....goes to show, not because your are Goggle big, that you need to spend google big money to get the job done.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I was very closely following this project having know the project team lead and talked to him about different projects he had going for the library deal .
I remember 8 years ago talking to him about how he was accomplishing the scanning part of it , he told me they even created their own scanning software.Today I saw the coolest little gadget that some homebrew tinkerer made , covered on / .
a month ago , do n't have link sorry....and he used 2 cheap cameras and a big ass metal frame meant to keep the book open and then flip the pages hydrolically...or something like that....this makes more sense and is much more cost effective for you and me....then use pdf to take all the images and place them in pdf format , voila ! Since then , I do n't even want to bother hearing about this project , as I know it cost millions of software dev .
and hardware creation , and this other guy did his under 1000 $ ....goes to show , not because your are Goggle big , that you need to spend google big money to get the job done .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I was very closely following this project having know the project team lead and talked to him about different projects he had going for the library deal.
I remember 8 years ago talking to him about how he was accomplishing the scanning part of it, he told me they even created their own scanning software.Today I saw the coolest little gadget that some homebrew tinkerer made, covered on /.
a month ago, don't have link sorry....and he used 2 cheap cameras and a big ass metal frame meant to keep the book open and then flip the pages hydrolically...or something like that....this makes more sense and is much more cost effective for you and me....then use pdf to take all the images and place them in pdf format, voila!Since then, I don't even want to bother hearing about this project, as I know it cost millions of software dev.
and hardware creation, and this other guy did his under 1000$....goes to show, not because your are Goggle big, that you need to spend google big money to get the job done.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686432</id>
	<title>summary of summary.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262896920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>human type book into PC, machine print book on paper, machine binds book ---time goes by--- machine unbind book, robot and human flip pages of book, machine photograph book, machine put book on PC.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>human type book into PC , machine print book on paper , machine binds book ---time goes by--- machine unbind book , robot and human flip pages of book , machine photograph book , machine put book on PC .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>human type book into PC, machine print book on paper, machine binds book ---time goes by--- machine unbind book, robot and human flip pages of book, machine photograph book, machine put book on PC.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687524</id>
	<title>Maybe they did it following /.'s current QOTD</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262858760000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"Twist the spine"</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" Twist the spine "</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"Twist the spine"</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687482</id>
	<title>Re:We used to call them "Service Bureaus"</title>
	<author>bill\_mcgonigle</author>
	<datestamp>1262858580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><blockquote><div><p> <i>Back when we called them "Service Bureaus"</i></p></div> </blockquote><p>Damn kids, get off my Syquest cart!</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Back when we called them " Service Bureaus " Damn kids , get off my Syquest cart !</tokentext>
<sentencetext> Back when we called them "Service Bureaus" Damn kids, get off my Syquest cart!
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687068</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30688272</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262862300000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>just filed vague patent for that</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>just filed vague patent for that</tokentext>
<sentencetext>just filed vague patent for that</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686372</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30689420</id>
	<title>Secret Patent</title>
	<author>Arancaytar</author>
	<datestamp>1262869380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Doesn't patent law require Google to disclose the invention in order to get it protected? I mean, I only have a vague idea of how it works, but I thought this was one of the points.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Does n't patent law require Google to disclose the invention in order to get it protected ?
I mean , I only have a vague idea of how it works , but I thought this was one of the points .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Doesn't patent law require Google to disclose the invention in order to get it protected?
I mean, I only have a vague idea of how it works, but I thought this was one of the points.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30689200</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>Snaller</author>
	<datestamp>1262867820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Brilliant idea!</p><p>Make it so!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Brilliant idea ! Make it so !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Brilliant idea!Make it so!</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687356</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>trb</author>
	<datestamp>1262857980000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>The patterns generated by 2 pages of text superimposed on each other (with one set in mirror image) are not impossible to read.  Take a two-sided page and hold it up to the light and try to read it.  It may seem difficult, the symbols may be fully or partially superimposed, but it's not impossible.  It may be solvable with sufficient computes, which means that if you can't do it now, you'll probably be able to do it on your cell phone in 10 years.
<p>
As for finding the boundaries between books in a stack, if a scanner can scan pages in a closed book, I think it will have little trouble separating the books.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The patterns generated by 2 pages of text superimposed on each other ( with one set in mirror image ) are not impossible to read .
Take a two-sided page and hold it up to the light and try to read it .
It may seem difficult , the symbols may be fully or partially superimposed , but it 's not impossible .
It may be solvable with sufficient computes , which means that if you ca n't do it now , you 'll probably be able to do it on your cell phone in 10 years .
As for finding the boundaries between books in a stack , if a scanner can scan pages in a closed book , I think it will have little trouble separating the books .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The patterns generated by 2 pages of text superimposed on each other (with one set in mirror image) are not impossible to read.
Take a two-sided page and hold it up to the light and try to read it.
It may seem difficult, the symbols may be fully or partially superimposed, but it's not impossible.
It may be solvable with sufficient computes, which means that if you can't do it now, you'll probably be able to do it on your cell phone in 10 years.
As for finding the boundaries between books in a stack, if a scanner can scan pages in a closed book, I think it will have little trouble separating the books.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687756</id>
	<title>Don't trust a chinky</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262859900000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Flamebait</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo"</p><p>Yet another example of how they respect <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/01/05/2359237" title="slashdot.org" rel="nofollow">other people's hard work</a> [slashdot.org]</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" the system 's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo " Yet another example of how they respect other people 's hard work [ slashdot.org ]</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo"Yet another example of how they respect other people's hard work [slashdot.org]</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686804</id>
	<title>Musical page flipping.</title>
	<author>Yaztromo</author>
	<datestamp>1262855340000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><nobr> <wbr></nobr></p><div class="quote"><p>...and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages.</p></div><p>...you will know it is time to turn the page when Tinkerbell rings her little bells like this...
</p><p>Yaz.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>...and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages....you will know it is time to turn the page when Tinkerbell rings her little bells like this.. . Yaz .</tokentext>
<sentencetext> ...and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages....you will know it is time to turn the page when Tinkerbell rings her little bells like this...
Yaz.
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30693128</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>Hadlock</author>
	<datestamp>1262958480000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>you could probably do this with xeroradiography, just set the power setting to high, and come up with a system that allows you to focus accurately per page. xeroradiography uses much simpler and readily avalible processes/materials than a modern MRI. just depends on the density of the ink they use relative to the paper.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>you could probably do this with xeroradiography , just set the power setting to high , and come up with a system that allows you to focus accurately per page .
xeroradiography uses much simpler and readily avalible processes/materials than a modern MRI .
just depends on the density of the ink they use relative to the paper .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>you could probably do this with xeroradiography, just set the power setting to high, and come up with a system that allows you to focus accurately per page.
xeroradiography uses much simpler and readily avalible processes/materials than a modern MRI.
just depends on the density of the ink they use relative to the paper.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686598</id>
	<title>Missing the point?</title>
	<author>johnw</author>
	<datestamp>1262897580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>Google is secretive, but the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchers</p></div><p>Surely the whole point of the patent system is to grant exclusive use for a period in return for publishing full details of how whatever it is works?  How can you have a patent without divulging the crucial information?</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Google is secretive , but the system 's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchersSurely the whole point of the patent system is to grant exclusive use for a period in return for publishing full details of how whatever it is works ?
How can you have a patent without divulging the crucial information ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Google is secretive, but the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchersSurely the whole point of the patent system is to grant exclusive use for a period in return for publishing full details of how whatever it is works?
How can you have a patent without divulging the crucial information?
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30686700</id>
	<title>Re:MRI technology?</title>
	<author>CRCulver</author>
	<datestamp>1262854800000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>MRIs are very slow. Ever have one?</htmltext>
<tokenext>MRIs are very slow .
Ever have one ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>MRIs are very slow.
Ever have one?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687282</id>
	<title>Re:We used to call them "Service Bureaus"</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262857560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I think this technology was developed to scan rare books. the kind you cant destroy you know ?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I think this technology was developed to scan rare books .
the kind you cant destroy you know ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I think this technology was developed to scan rare books.
the kind you cant destroy you know ?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_07_1845259.30687378</id>
	<title>Re:What will the Jews think about this?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262858040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Offtopic</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Thank God there are so few of those.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Thank God there are so few of those .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Thank God there are so few of those.</sentencetext>
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