Abstract: A system and method to scan and/or copy virtually simultaneously all of the pages of books, multiple-page documents and/or other printed or illustrated material without requiring the opening of the book, one at a time page separation nor dismantling/uncoupling of documents by scanning multiple pages all at once and using software to interpret the printed or colored areas on each plane or page to copy and create digital images of the individual pages of the original item scanned. In one embodiment or implementation, penetrating scanning beams will deliver a three-dimensional image of a book, stack of printed papers, magazine, etc. to a CPU and individual pages will be detected and distinguished and a image of each page shall be created. After processing the images with optical character recognition then the text of the documents can be indexed and searched and accessed by network users.