Scanning LPs ?

Has anyone heard of anything like this before?

I have come across the tri-laser turntable but this guy just lays the record on an office type scanner, rotates and copies 4 quadrant images, pastes them together and somehow converts the image to MP3.

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/

His samples sound terible, of course, but the idea is new to me.