Scan Documents with your Camera Phone

Soon, just like some Japanese men and women are currently doing, you will be able to scan documents with your cell phone. Did not finish an article at a news stand, scan it and read it later.

This is only possible because some phones now offer very rudimentary optical character recognition (OCR) software which allows small amounts of text to be captured and digitised from images.

Using the new software with a 1-megapixel camera held at least 20centimetres away, an A4 sized page takes about 3 to 5 seconds to scan. This produces between 21 and 35 images which the software merges together to extract the text and record any images.

New Scientist with the rest of the story.

September 19th, 2005 Posted by David in News at 8:43 am Comment Now! »
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