Scanning question

[Toby Thain]

On 2019-07-19 6:36 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 7/18/19 10:01 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
> 
>> I have a lot more to say about the wisdom of destroying original publications
>> to scan them, especially when you are not already an expert at scanning and
>> the many tradeoffs.
>> But have to go afk just now.
> 
> It would seem to be possible today.  Perhaps with a laser scanner that
> also determines the focal plane of the area of the text it's trying to scan?
> 

There are both software (e.g. some of Matt Zucker's code) and hardware
(e.g. what google does) solutions for this, and published research on
related matters.


--Toby

> I'm sure there must be something like this.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
>