From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 21:12:12 PDT
I do this with my digital camera's all the time.
5 years ago with my Ricoh and now with my Nikon, both
have a "document" mode which switches the camera to a
high-contrast black and white mode. Then when I get
the image into my computer and convert it to a TIFF, I
use Omnipage OCR to convert to text. I've done this
for magazine articles in the library, and even a sign
in the Outerbanks.
This works well and I never have a problem. And it has
gotten even easier what with USB ports being so
reliable as they are (My original Ricoh had a serial
port download only...)
Ed
web/gadget guru
come and see my Newt on the web (well, mostly) at:
http://65.84.243.167
--- Ronsilvar <Ronsilvar_at_husky-net.net> wrote:
> on 9/2/03 9:04 AM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net at
> newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 02:51 -0700 (PDT)
> > Subject: Re: [NTLK] Please Talk Me Out of This!.
> > From: Woo Lee <vitcitylb_at_earthlink.net>
> >
> > Say what??? A demo???
>
> > I remember reading an article that quoted (was it
> Spindler? I can't
> > remember
> > anymore) as saying that the future newton would
> have a more intelligent
> > adaptive engine to better anticipate the user's
> action by analyzing the
> > users common tasks and performing certain
> repititious tasks automatically.
> > He also said that the future newton will have
> voice recognition input and
> > the capability
> > to "read" writing through a builtin camera. He
> showed a demo that had a
> > Newton pointing to some oriental
> > graffitti on a mock city wall and the Newton read
> the graffitti and
> > translated it in English on the Newton's screen.
>
> I too did a double take. Is there an app for
> desktops? If that were the
> case can you imagine what it would do for microfiche
> storage business. My
> God, it would revolutionize the library profession's
> access to information!
> Is this really possible?
> I kind of doubt it really exists but then again I
> can't see why not. What's
> so hard about taking a picture or jpg of some micro
> text and running it
> through a "photo" OCR app?
>
> M'Best,
> Ron
=====
"When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know', the end result is tyranny and oppression , no matter how holy the motives"
-Robert Heinlein, Revolt in 2100
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