Reading the contents of a book?

[Solmorphic 0]

I would like to be able to write a program that can read the contents of a written book or book and quill. My guess is that this would require reading the NBT data, which I understand is somewhat cheaty? Would that mean that the best way to achieve this is with a dedicated component/driver?

[Negi 6]

As far as I know, no one implemented any component for that yet, but yes that's the only way. (And I don't think the Debug Card has it either...)

[Solmorphic 0]

OK thanks for the info, I'll file an issue against OpenComputers to see if there is interest in support for this being built in.

[Negi 6]

I think that you should suggest that for OpenPrinter instead ? It belongs there more, and I hardly see how one would make a book-reader (if it's actually possible) without it being a scanner.