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Fully automatic ones do exist, but its generally not done to not risk damage to the books. And without ocr of page numbers you always risked missing pages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvM-tjrS2-U

That said, a lot of automation processes in place do destroy the book by cutting the spine and scanning it.

[westurner]

"Ask HN: What's the best out-of-box Document OCR/Analyzing/recognition API?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38829242 ; BetterOCR :

> Better text detection by combining multiple OCR engines (EasyOCR, Tesseract, and Pororo)

FWIU there's a way to image multiple stacked sheets of ancient scrolls without unrolling them?