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Re: Opinions & Advice requested: tabloid-format Computist test page

Scott Alfter wrote:


In article <WI2dnUV7Le2YQCXfRVn-qg@comcast.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:


(BTW, I've found my digital camera indispensable for making quick
copies of documents that cannot be easily scanned--like those that
are displayed in a case.  The lighting is catch-as-catch can, and
sometimes I have to take the picture off-axis, but Photoshop allows
all of these problems to be fixed with a little work.)



When I'm shooting pictures of museum exhibits, I'll frequently shoot a
closeup of whatever informational sign describes the exhibit.  If I don't,
it's anybody's guess as to whether I'll remember whatever it was if I pull
up the picture after a year or two (or more).  The photo can even be OCR'd
to extract the text from it, if I go to the bother of making a slideshow for
the photos (which are usually nothing more than a set of script-generated
HTML files).


Yep, I do the same thing.

In fact, it was after I'd been using my camera to capture the text
descriptions of exhibits that I realized I could use it to capture
original documents as well.  (Of course, spys understood this almost
as soon as the camera was invented. ;-)

-michael

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