At Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:19:18 -0500, Robert Cicconetti wrote:
How did OCR'ing go? I wonder because the resolution of cheap digital cameras is quite low for scanning. For example, to scan an A4 page (aspect ratio: sqrt(2)) with a usual digital camera (aspect ratio of images: 4:3) in 300DPI, you need a camera with more than nine mega-pixels.
Let's try something more realistic.
Admittedly, for most book scanning tasks the requirements are not as high as I illustrated. However, a simple camera wouldn't fit the need of people that frequently have to create quality scans of pages whose size is around A4 (I'm one of these people). IOW: An ordinary flatbed scanner is probably still the best and cheapest solution for most people. A dream for scanning books, of course, is the BookEye series of scanners that one can sometimes find in some public libraries. -- Felix E. Klee