isnt there an OCR software for symbian camera phones?
should be way simplier than the newton-scanner combo
/ ®
On 24 aug 2006, at 20.35, maynard@jmg.com wrote:
> Interesting. I'm looking at the Brother DCP-8065DN scanner /
> laserprinter / photocopier as a solution to this problem. I recently
> bought a used 2100 and want a way to reliably move OCR scanned PDFs
> (or
> PDFs output to plain text), as well as scan in books. Ultimately,
> I'd like
> to stop printing reams of material out in order to read and
> annotate, only
> to type my notes and quotations back in when writing essays. Going
> completely digital with thousands of pages per semester to search,
> looks
> like a major time saver over the manually editing printed material.
>
> I'd even be willing to buy a Windows tablet / slab computer to
> do this
> - *if* it worked (which they don't). For now, this ten year old
> newton is
> the only tool I've found which allows me to both read and annotate
> easily.
>
> Can't speak to the scanner you want to buy, but I can say I want
> to do
> the same thing. --M
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