14 Aug
2001
14 Aug
'01
10 p.m.
A number of companies still make so-called scan accelerator
cards.. Kofax, Xerox, Canon.. Pretty much all they do is take
the scanned image over a SCSI connection and compress it
into a tiff or jpeg in hardware.. I've seen everything from
Phillips MIPS clones to AMD embedded processors for the
job. Never seen one based on a M68K tho.
Not too much demand for them these days. Well, considering
a PII 350 can handle 60ppm at 400dpi in software at a sane
level of system load.
Jim
On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:20 PM, Dave McGuire
[SMTP:mcguire@neurotica.com] wrote:
On August 14, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> IIRC, it's possible it's associated with scanner/OCR processes.
One
> of my
> colleagues had a set of three or four ISA cards, each of which had
> four 68030's
> on it, each with what I then saw as a significant amount of RAM for
> its task.
> He was using that together with a pretty fancy set of software for
a
MAJOR
automatic transcription task, and, from what I gathered, it did a
good job.
I don't know about your board, but the ones I saw were fully packed
on both
sides. It was, for the time, VERY impressive to see. The results
were pretty
impressive, too, as he'd converted about 6000 pages of text into a
searchable
document on a set of CD's.
This sounds like some boards made by Calera that I used back in '90
or so. They were pretty impressive.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD