The Institute of Art History at Venice’s Fondazione Giorgio Cini is digitising its million-strong collection of photographs of art from the Veneto with the help of the world’s fastest circular scanner. The Replica 360 Recto Verso, designed by the Madrid-based firm Factum Arte, can scan a double-sided document in four seconds. The system matches the images and adds them to the existing catalogue, complete with basic metadata tags. The Ecole Polytechnique of Lausanne is using the data to build an iconographic search engine. The scanning process is due to finish in 2018.