Most people think of scanners as that quaint mechanism that looks like an old photocopier on the printer, or an independent flatbed ideal for capturing receipts. But in commercial terms, there are two ...

The rise of tablet computers, such as Apple's iPad, and e-book readers, such as Amazon's Kindle, has resulted in a rise in popularity for electronic versions of books. If you want to use one with a ...

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I was a bookworm when I was a kid, reading almost a book a day. I lived overseas, and English books were hard to come by, so I devoured any I could find. Though this was long before I knew anything ...

Google is to start scanning and copying the world's books again after announcing on Tuesday that its self-imposed suspension is over. The company says it will resume scanning books but will focus on ...

Title says it all.<BR><BR>I've got a decent Canon scanner & a bunch of Japanese language books I would like to scan, so I can take them with me wherever I go.<BR><BR ...

Google said it will soon resume scanning books that have been protected by copyright into its Google Print database, despite two lawsuits charging the company with copyright infringement. In August, ...

In the race to digitize the entire literary canon, Microsoft has announced a deal with high-speed scanning company Kirtas Technologies to scan works for Microsoft's Live Book Search Web-based ...

Yet another major college library has paired off with a commercial book-scanning project: Yale University announced yesterday that it would post portions of its collection online through Live Search ...