A colleague of mine has a problem which I will list hereunder. I did not quite know where exactly to put it, so I am posting here. Mods, please move this to appropriate section. Thanks.
The problem:
A colleague needs a secondary portable laptop (which is easily taken care of). She also does a lot of archival work which requires her to make copies - either by scanning or by photocopying. This last bit is posing a problem for her. When she is in the archives, she copies about 50-75 pages per day. While some of the locations she visits have in-house copying facilities, others do not. She is thus looking for a portable copying solution. Some of the options that we have discussed are:
(1) A portable scanner - I don't know if this would hoild up to her scanning requirements. But a possibility?
(2) Using a digital camera to take pics of the documents and then to convert them to PDF or another readable and editable format. Problem with this is that the output of this option leaves much to be desired for. Moreover, I am not sure the conversion of images into text would work well. However, if the conversion is indeed possible to so smoothly (if necessary by buying the necessary software), then this may be a viable option. She has tried doing this with one of the low end digital point-and-shoot cams, but as I mentioned earlier, the output is horrible.
Are there any other options or suggestions that you can make? The key is portability.
She is in a bit of a hurry so...please...thanks.
Cheers!
Reply 1 : Portable Scanning/Archival Solution?
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From my experience, at least, you're definitely want to use some sort of specialized scanner. A digital camera is not going to cut it, even if it is a DSLR, since it results in huge file sizes but very variable quality unless you have a rig that's built to make sure the output is consistent every time (and in that case, it may be faster--see the Google Book and other similar projects).
From my experience, at least, you're definitely want to use some sort of specialized scanner. A digital camera is not going to cut it, even if it is a DSLR, since it results in huge file sizes but very variable quality unless you have a rig that's built to make sure the output is consistent every time (and in that case, it may be faster--see the Google Book and other similar projects).
Reply 2 : Portable Scanning/Archival Solution?
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From my experience, at least, you're definitely want to use some sort of specialized scanner. A digital camera is not going to cut it, even if it is a DSLR, since it results in huge file sizes but very variable quality unless you have a rig that's built to make sure the output is consistent every time (and in that case, it may be faster--see the Google Book and other similar projects). |
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