Treventus ScanRobot 2.0 MDS Automatic Book Scanner
In short: The ScanRobot 2.0 MDS is a fully automatic book scanner that turns pages by vacuum and air and captures both pages through a prism inside a 60° V-cradle, at up to 2,500 pages per hour and 300–400 dpi. It is the machine for mass digitisation of modern bound collections — hundreds of thousands of pages — where an operator turning pages is the bottleneck.
Made by Treventus in Vienna and installed in more than 40 countries. Micrographics Data supplies, installs and supports it in Singapore and the region.
Prism capture and vacuum page turning
The book rests in a self-centring wooden V-cradle adjustable between 60° and 100°. A prism-shaped head with line-scan cameras descends into the V; both pages are imaged through the prism faces, which flatten them optically without a glass plate.
As the head rises, light vacuum lifts the next page onto the prism and a soft air stream lays it across. Only one mechanical moving part means low maintenance and 24-hour shift operation.
Load
Book is placed in the self-centring wooden V-cradle; opening angle set between 60° and 100°.
Capture
Prism head descends; line-scan cameras image both pages through the prism faces, distortion-free to the gutter.
Turn
Vacuum lifts the next page onto the rising prism; a gentle air stream lays it over. No fingers, no glass.
Output
ScanGate crops, deskews and names files in real time — TIFF, JPEG 2000, searchable PDF — ready for the repository.
ScanRobot 2.0 MDS at a glance
Figures from the Treventus system overview. Confirm current options and configuration with our quotation.
Where the ScanRobot sits in the range
Speed rises as the material gets more robust. Fragility, not budget, is the first filter.
Treventus also develops NAINUWA X2, the digital archive and publishing platform. ScanRobot output flows directly into NAINUWA for search, OCR and public access.
Government buyers procure through GeBIZ, where Micrographics Data is a registered supplier.
ScanRobot questions
Operator-driven and semi-robotic scanners are under Book2net. Prefer not to buy? See book scanning as a service.
How fast is the ScanRobot 2.0 MDS?
Rated up to 2,500 pages per hour in automatic mode. Sustained throughput on a real collection — including loading, calibration checks and books needing semi-automatic handling — is typically 1,000–1,500 pages per hour, still several times a manual operator on a conventional book scanner.
How does the ScanRobot turn pages without damaging the book?
A prism head descends into the 60° V of the open book. Gentle vacuum lifts the next page onto the prism while the current spread is captured, and a low air stream lays it over. The book is never opened past 100° and nothing presses on the spine — gentler than a flat glass-plate scanner.
What books can it scan?
Hard and soft covers up to roughly A4+ per page (a 355 × 355 mm spread) in sound structural condition: modern monographs, journals, theses, legal volumes, textbooks. Brittle, very tight or highly valuable bindings should go to a semi-robotic V-shape scanner such as the Book2net Cobra.
What resolution and image quality does it produce?
Optical 300 dpi standard, 400 dpi optional, constant regardless of page size, in 36-bit colour, greyscale or bitonal. Capture is distortion-free to the gutter because the prism flattens the page optically. ISO 19264-1 compliant image quality is available as an option.
What software comes with it?
ScanGate for capture and real-time image treatment, producing JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, PNG, PDF with OCR layer, XML and DjVu simultaneously. RT-Batch workflow options automate cropping, deskew, naming and quality checks during scanning.
Who makes the ScanRobot and who supports it in Singapore?
TREVENTUS Mechatronics GmbH of Vienna, winner of the European ICT Prize 2007 for the original ScanRobot. Micrographics Data is the Treventus partner for Singapore and Southeast Asia and provides installation, training, maintenance and first-line support, with Treventus engineering behind it.
Is it suitable for our volume?
An automatic scanner pays back when a project runs to hundreds of thousands of pages of modern bound material — library backfiles, legal and government publication series, dissertations. Below that, a Book2net production scanner or our scanning bureau is usually more economical.
Can we see it running on our own books?
Yes. We arrange demonstrations and sample scanning, and quote the same project as a bureau service so you can compare cost per page between owning the machine and outsourcing.
Tell us the page count and the condition of the collection
We quote the ScanRobot and the same project as a bureau service, so you can compare cost per page.