[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe they have machines to turn pages, and something to figure
> out the distorted photo of the book and render it how it would look as
> a flat page.

Yeah, there are videos of these machines. The book sits open, the
scanner comes down and scans both open pages at once. As it goes up
again, it sucks on one page, causing it to flip over. Then repeat.

Oh, look, here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY

And while we're at it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning

Steve