{"id":14567,"date":"2016-04-17T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14567"},"modified":"2016-04-17T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T12:43:09","slug":"raspberry-pi-powered-book-scanner-for-ethiopean-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14567","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi-powered book scanner for Ethiopean education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.hackaday.io\/images\/9648081458381395474.jpg?resize=560%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the lead of a Dean from an Ethiopean university, who could see that the high cost of textbooks was holding back developing world countries, a group has got together to build a \u20ac500 book scanner that turns the pages via a vacuum. 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