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4DigitalBooks built a robot that converts books to digital form at 900 pages an hour

How do you clear a 550-year backlog for scanning books?

The task is formidable because a lot of quality content produced since 1450, when mass printing started, hasn't been converted to digital form. A small Swiss company called 4DigitalBooks-Assy SA might help to change that.

4DigitalBooks has built a robot that can scan almost any book...

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