[Trainer-talk] Stand Alone Scanner

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

I train many people...the stand alone is the worst for people...have a
scanner where you can insert it and you will have more success with the scan
denise

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Blaine Clark <blaineclrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you considered using a web cam mounted on a stand and aimed down
> toward a table or desktop on which the reading material is moved around or
> if the mount is mobile, the camera can be moved over the material? The web
> cam can be operated  through any program that can either adjust resolution
> and magnification or a magnifier program can enlarge portions of the
> program's window on your computer monitor. I've done this with Linux, a
> cheap $15 web cam hung on the edge of my monitor and the program for Linux
> called Cheese to see for myself how easily it can be done. With the cheap
> web cam the results weren't bad at all. I could read the fine print on a
> garden seed package with no problems, but it could have been better with a
> better web cam with better resolution or if I had used a magnifier program.
> You would want some other type of mounting arm above a table to afford more
> clearance to move the material than what I used, especially large pages
> such as newspapers, but that could be easily done with some scrap wood and
> some clamps or screws.
>
> There has to be a way to do this in Microsoft, but if there isn't it can
> be easily done in Linux. I don't think you can do this much less
> expensively or with more flexibility. Depending on the quality of the web
> cam and the features of the viewing program plus the bit of mounting
> hardware or wood to securely hang the camera on you should be able to put
> this together for much less than $100, perhaps even under $50.
>
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