Events

  • AASLH Annual Meeting

    September 10-11, 2008
    Rochester Convention Center
    Rochester, NY

  • Frankfurt Book Fair

    Frankfurter Buchmesse
    October 15 - October 19, 2008
    Frankfurt, Germany

  • GITEX

    October 19-23, 2008
    UAE
    Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre

  • GTEC 2008

    October 28-29, 2008
    Ottawa
    Westin Hotel
    Ristech Booth 1012

  • IMS Online

    December 2008
    London, UK

APT BookScan 1212™: Benefits

Kirtas' APT BookScan 1212™ maximizes your organization's throughput via:

  • Increased revenues from expanded customer capacity and faster turnaround
  • Dramatically reduced labor costs
  • Lower per-page scanning costs

Here is how the APT BookScan 1212™ compares to currently available scanning products:

 

 
APT Bookscan 1212™
Old Methods
Throughput Up to 1,200 pages per hour 100-150 pages per hour
Preservation Scan bound books without straining even fragile bindings Requires extensive prepping, debinding, rebinding, and aggressive page flattening
Quality 300-600 dpi, full-color images without distortion from the first page to the last. The APT 1212™ is equipped with one 12.8 mega pixel EOS-1Ds Mark II Canon digital camera. It photographs each right- and left-hand page sequentially using a mirror array through the camera’s Canon 24-70mm Zoom EF lens. Resolution can be set to 300 or 400 pixels per inch. Variable
Ease of Use Simple, GUI (Graphical User Interface) minimizes training Variable
Productivity One operator can monitor up to two APT BookScan units for a total of 2,000 scanned pages each hour 2,000 pages per hour would require as many as 20 operators and as many scanners

Community with Disabilities

The APT BookScan 1212™ is a revolutionary assistive technology for supporting book conversion to other formats (e.g., Braille, audio books, magnification, etc.) utilized by the Community with Disabilities and Disability Services professionals.  Some of its unique benefits for these communities are:

  • Return on Investment
    • Running costs as low as 3¢ per page compared to 35¢  to $1.50 per page using manual methods
    • Same cost per page for color and grayscale as for black and white pages
  • Top Quality Service Maintenance
    • Insured by our partner AB Dick with close to 250 field representatives across the nation
  • Free Software Upgrade With Purchase of a Maintenance Contract

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