Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-04-30 Thread William Wueppelmann
) 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. -- William Wueppelmann Systems Librarian/Programmer

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-01 Thread William Wueppelmann
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open, public standards v. pay per view standards and usage

2009-07-14 Thread William Wueppelmann
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