Camera phones will be high-precision scanner
The software, developed by NEC and the Nara
Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing
cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by
sweeping the phone across the page. Commuters in Japan already anger bookstore
owners and newsagents by using existing cellphone software to try to take
snapshots of newspaper and magazine articles to finish reading on the train to
work.
Posted: Wed - September 14, 2005 at 04:38 PM