Image Access Presents the World’s First Wide Format Duplex Scanner and the Technology Hit Bookeye 4
Image Access, specialty scanner manufacturer based in Wuppertal, Germany; will present their extended family of high performance wide format and planetary scanners at CeBIT 2010 in Hannover (Hall 3, Booth E20). Highlights at this year’s show will include the world’s first wide format duplex scanner, the WideTEK 36 DS as well as the innovative book scanner, Bookeye 4; developed particularly with the self-service application market in mind.
With the latest member of the Bookeye family, Image Access placed an emphasis on developing a scanner which is compact, easy to operate and competitively priced; to bring high end professional scanning to an even larger population of users. The efficient Bookeye 4 digitizes source material such as bound documents at high speeds in up to 600 dpi optical resolution and formats up to DIN A2.
Over 17 years of electronic, optical and mechanical engineering experience went into the creation and manufacture of the Bookeye 4. The clever mirror mechanism captures the document precisely from edge to edge, whether it is a flat document or a book open at an angle of 120 degrees.
The V-shaped book cradle was optimized to reduce the risk of damage to book spines and binding during digitization. The book cradle holds the open book at an angle of 120 degrees; enough to effectively scan the contents of a page, while gently preserving the original subject matter.
Image Access Announces World’s First Wide Format Duplex Scanner at the DMS Expo 2009
Wuppertal, 3 September 2009. Image Access from Wuppertal, Germany presents the first wide format duplex scanner at the DMS Expo in Cologne. The WideTEK 36 DS is the world’s first wide format scanner for duplex digitalization of newspapers and other double-sided printed documents. The very compact WideTEK 36 DS needs only four seconds to scan the front and back sides of a newspaper page (at 200 dpi). This scanner offers considerable advantages to press clipping services, libraries and archives who, until now, had no choice but to use complicated multiple step solutions to digitalize newspapers.
The large format duplex scanner WideTEK 36 DS scans documents up to 36 inches (915 mm) in width. The idea of double-sided scanning in one production step primarily means less production effort: The document no longer needs to be flipped over and scanned again on the other side. The scanners feature two camera boxes, both consisting of three CCD systems, integrated into upper and lower part of the device – only few centimeters from each other. The WideTEK 36 DS captures both sides of the newspaper at the same time. As a final step, the software separates the scanned document into four single images, capturing the left and right sides on the front and back of the newspaper – everything in one step.
The entire scan process – from scanning, image processing up to image display – can therefore be considerably reduced. This is especially important for press clipping, in order to deliver the actual press analysis even earlier/faster.
“The greatest challenge in the development and construction was to integrate the more extensive mechanics and additional camera and light units into the device without enlarging its dimensions. The duplex scanner is only 13 centimetres larger than the compact WideTEK 36”, said Thomas Ingendoh, President and CEO of Image Access.
The scanner is equipped with two processor units; this allows an extremely fast data throughput. All image processing is executed directly inside the scanner. This results in high scan speed and excellent scan quality.
