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New Book Scanner From Atiz Featured at AIIMExpo 2009

Simple Scanning Solution Enables Digitization and Management of Bound Content — Quickly and Affordably.

Atiz Innovation, Inc., the leader in content digitization, will unveil its latest book scanning solution, BookDrive Pro, this week at the AIIMExpo and Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed to address the growing movement to digitize bound content and books, BookDrive Pro’s affordable price point lowers the barrier of entry for many of those tasked with digitizing bound content.
From service bureaus, deed registries and archivists to enterprise data managers and government entities, the need for a solution to help manage the ever growing volume of bound content is reaching a critical mass. Enter Atiz — whose products have scanned more than 2 million books worldwide. Atiz’s book scanners help those tasked with digitizing bound content get the job done at a price point that they can afford.

Priced more competitively than other book scanners, BookDrive Pro is a powerful, cost-effective book digitization solution. By combining digital SLR cameras with a unique v-shaped book cradle, BookDrive Pro is gentle on books and eliminates curvature problems to produce high-resolution scans at up to 700 pages an hour. BookDrive Pro features a user-friendly, ergonomic design; automatic center positioning to ensure consistent borders and lessen manual intervention; a double security locking mechanism; distortion-eliminating even light distribution and standard auto capture to simplify the whole process.

Additionally, BookDrive Pro has the ability to scan oversized books — up to A2, newspaper size — and heavy, cumbersome items such as deed registries.
“Everybody has bound content that needs to be scanned,” noted Nick Warnock, president of Atiz. “With BookDrive Pro, Atiz gives organizations the option of bringing digitization projects in house, allowing them to choose what is scanned as well as control the sometimes sensitive content — all while saving money by not having to outsource these projects.”

Atiz’s innovative approach utilizes high performance SLR cameras as capture devices, making BookDrive Pro the best value proposition in the industry, as it will never become obsolete. “When new, improved camera models become available, users need only to replace their cameras — not the entire scanning system as is the case with other offerings,” explained Warnock.

In addition to book spine damage and low productivity, conventional or overhead scanners also produce curved page images and rely on software to correct resultant curvature problems. This approach has proven to produce poor, often unreliable results. Atiz has taken a different approach, and BookDrive Pro eliminates the need for page curvature correction, making it faster and less expensive than other offerings. The combination of a v-shaped book cradle and transparent platen which sets the book in an angled position for scanning by high-speed, high resolution digital SLR cameras is a unique design that guarantees sharp, flat-looking pages in every scan.

Included with BookDrive Pro is Atiz’s proprietary software package: BookDrive Capture and BookDrive Editor Pro. BookDrive Capture allows for the simultaneous capturing of images. The software supports SLR cameras manufactured by Canon. BookDrive Editor Pro allows for image editing functions such as the ability to batch crop, deskew, despeckle, color adjustment, TIFF conversion, and the output of eBooks in PDF format.

Concurrent with the launch of BookDrive Pro, Atiz is offering optional installation and consulting services to assist in digitization initiatives and ensure smooth integration.

How to set the BookDrive Capture dual mode with VMware

PC Specification :

• OS  :  Vista ,  XP SP2
• Memory  :  2 GB or more
• Hard Disk  :  50GB or more

Installation:

Master :

Install the BookDrive Capture(master PC).

Slave :

1. Installed VMware and install Vista or XP (recommend) into VM.

   VMware configuration:

   Memory     :  256MB(XP) , 1GB(Vista)
   Hard Disk   :  10GB or more
   Ethernet     :  Host-only(without cable) , Bridged(LAN)

   

2. Install a Capture Slave to VM’s OS.
3. Check the VM’s OS IP address at the Capture Slave or below.
   -   Window + R ->cmd->ipconfig and remember the IP address.
4. Enter the IP address into BookDrive Capture -> Slave Connection.

How to connect both cameras

Connected are both cameras to PC with USB.(Cameras turn OFF).

Master :

Handle the BookDrive Capture and turn ON right camera. Please wait done.

Slave :

Handle the VM and turn On left camera. Please wait done.

Enjoy!

New Atiz support system is implimented.

No customer email is left behind when it time for a support. This week we’re excited to launch the new support system.

Features in our support system:

• When you email us to support@atiz.com your email is assigned a ticket number.

• You can request to open a tick at our support page.

• You can track every ticket efficiently.

• Your email is not left behind.

We always focused on improving Atiz website and rolling out great features.

- Atiz website crew

MSNBC: In the Race to Create a Digital Library of All Human Knowledge, Some Are Being Left Behind

It’s a fact: The digitization of bound content is here to stay. With Google’s Book Project, The Open Content Alliance, Project Gutenberg, and others, book digitization on a large scale has become an accepted phenomenon, and the ultimate goal of creating a universal, digital library of all human knowledge is on the way to becoming a reality. That being said, a significant portion of the market who would like to digitize their content has been left behind by being underserved and even neglected altogether.

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LA Times: Atiz turns books digital without help from Google

Digitizing books is all the rage these days, with the Kindle 2 being pimped on the “Daily Show,” Amazon allowing its e-books to be read on the iPhone and Barnes & Noble getting deeper into the digital book market. Google can now scan out-of-print and rare books and put them online, after it settled a lawsuit with book publishers in October, and a volunteer effort called Project Gutenberg is trying to turn hundreds of cultural works into 1s and 0s.

Read more from Los Angles Times here.

BookDrive Editor Pro 4.1.2 just released

http://www.atiz.com/Download/BookDriveDIY/BookDriveEditor/BookDriveEditorPro_4120.zip

- Fixed memory control with many RAW file processing. (black TIFF images used to be problem.)

** note
We’ve tested the RAW file size 10.3M and 770 images and it’s stable.