That might not be the best analogy. The most commonly-cited reason for
Beta losing out to VHS seems to be the initial limitation of Beta to
1-hour tapes, which wasn't enough to record a movie from TV, or to play
back a rented one without switching tapes partway through. By the time
Beta
Amanda P wrote:
Cameras around $100 dollars are very low quality. You could get no where
near the dpi recommended for materials that need to be OCRed. The quality of
images from cameras would be not only low, but the OCR (even with the best
software) would probably have many errors. For someone
) digital camera in conjunction with a stand and maybe an image
editor like Photoshop (or something free like Irfanview) to crop and
deskew afterwards might work just fine, but in other cases, a much more
elaborate setup might be needed.
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William Wueppelmann
Systems Librarian/Programmer