Scanning was Re: R-E 68000 PC articles that were mentioned

John Allain allain at panix.com
Wed Nov 16 08:15:10 CST 2005


> > Is there a fast way to scan bound
> > materials without butchering them?

>  Yes indeed. Get a cheap 1.0 - 2.0 megapix digital
> camera that has a threaded lense (i.e screws in and

This list is nuts (not really) about getting At Least 300 dpi
image scans of printed material for later OCR.  That would 
make a need for about 5Mpx for books, 8Mpx for magazines.
Luckily even those cameras are starting to get cheap.

John A.



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