From: Carlo Traverso <traverso@dm.unipi.it>

Juhana> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/audio/devel/books/

Please, instead of putting there a big tar.gz file of 72MB, can you put some individual images?

Now there is, sorry. The images at the end of list are good for OCR testing. The images at the begin are test images: with/without flash, with normal/with "flower" focus.

Indeed, my attempts with a good digital camera (5Mpixels, manual focus, uncompressed tiff output, a special mode for text, a professional tripod, etc) have been poor.

Canon EOS 300D, or perhaps newer EOS 350D would do the same. Nikon D70. Minolta Dynax 7D (european model name, US has different name). At least Canon and Nikon raw images have been converted with an open source software. See gphoto webpages for links and details. I'm not sure about the proper Linux interfacing. I should have it, because I would like to write a special software for digitization. (Canon has a proper SDK only for Windows.) Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software