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| Thread ID: 62351 | 2005-10-05 00:53:00 | Irispen hand scanner? | JTE (8838) | Press F1 |
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| 393470 | 2005-10-05 00:53:00 | Am interested in purchasing one, is it a good but and is there a better one. Would appreciate some advice fellas. Thanks. John | JTE (8838) | ||
| 393471 | 2005-10-05 01:57:00 | What do you want to do with it? f you want to scan photographs or text, you should be aware that it's very difficult to get satisfactory results . The first hand scanners sold well because they were much cheaper than flatbed scanners (which cost well over $1000) . Now you can get quite good cheap flatbeds . A motor can move a scanner sensor in a straight line at constant speed much better than you can . ;) |
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| 393472 | 2005-10-05 02:45:00 | An easy way to copy out of magazines and books, if the hand scanners still do not work very well then I guess that is the end of it. I just thought Modern Technology would have it beat by now. Any other comments, please. J |
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| 393473 | 2005-10-05 03:39:00 | I think the main problem is that the human technology haven't been improved. ;) There's "skew" distortion if you can't maintain a straight line. This is made harder by the curvature of an open book. At least on a flatbed the book can be held still. A friend uses a digital camera for grabbing information when a book or something is not available to take home to his computer. I think he just "reads" the output, and doesn't try using OCR on it. |
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| 393474 | 2005-10-05 06:35:00 | Thanks you've talked me out of it. J |
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