From: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de>
How did OCR'ing go? I wonder because the resolution of cheap digital cameras is quite low for scanning.
Well, I did not test OCR'ing at all. :-) I store digitizations only as images which also are used for reading. Please test it yourself and tell the results in the list. ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/audio/devel/books/ A few first images are various testings. The digitization sequence test starts at the image 1438. Remember, it is a tourist camera with lens distortions and with poor focus control. I used a plain ceiling light, not better movable lights. The book is on a chair and the photographed page points directly to up -- which is wrong. Yes, one page per image is better because the page bends when the book is laid wide open. The book and camera stand could be designed so that the book rests in V shape holder and that the camera is facing perpendicular to the book page. That is, camera would not be above the book and would not face down. (The scanner, which allows the book rest on the edge of the scanning glass, solves the same bending-pages problem. So does the scanning glass-wedge.) Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software