September 16, 2005
Scan Documents with Your Camera Phone?
New software being developed by NEC, in conjunction with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, will permit the scanning of entire documents by sweeping your camera phone across the page:
"... with the new software entire documents can be captured. As a page is being scanned the OCR software takes dozens of still images of the page and effectively merges them together using the outline of the page as a reference guide. The software can also detect the curvature of the page and correct any distortion so caused, enabling even the areas near the binding to be scanned clearly."
Source: New Scientist
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Posted by BJ at September 16, 2005 12:33 PM
