Re: Softalk Magazine

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <zOCMj.10952$682.9980@edtnps90>,
Jerry  <SNIPawanderin@yahoSNIPo.ca> wrote:
>I use a home-built cradle for books so the books lays open about 30 degrees
>from flat.  Its face is painted flat-black so that pages are always
>surrounded by black.  Then, using a digital camera and a piece of glass to
>press the pages flat, I can scan a couple hundred pages in half an hour. 

Sounds interesting...only problems I can see are (1) it'd take an ~8.5 MP
camera to get somewhere near 300 dpi and (2) you'd probably want lossless
images (TIFF or RAW) from your camera for further processing.  Mine does
TIFF, but 3 MP isn't likely to capture enough detail for OCR.

(Then again, you can probably get a 10 MP camera now for no more than I
spent a few years back for 3...maybe even less.)

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