On 6/17/2010 12:11 PM, rich12345 wrote:
On Jun 17, 11:20 am, "Michael J. Mahon"<mjma...@aol.com> wrote:At various times in the past, we've discussed high speed methods of scanning documents. Here's an interesting concept:That looks like it takes a blazing fast CPU to process the "curved" images into "flat" pages.... I wish I had one of those. Thumbing through a book is alot faster than cutting the binding off and scanning a page at a time with a flatbed... so far I've done about 9000 pages that way.
As long as the image capture is fast, the processing can be done "offline"--though if you had a stack of books to process, you'd want it to be ready to go again immediately. ;-) This would be an easy application of multicore technology. -michael NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."