Cell Phone with Camera = Scanner

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @01:20AM from the thats-a-clever-idea dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TechJapan has posted a translation of an Impress Watch Article regarding a new technology developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, that lets people use their cellular phones with cameras as scanners. It says all you have to do is move your phone over the surface of the piece of paper while recording a movie, and the technology (some sort of software I presume) will construct a high resolution image from the individual frames of the video. Here is the original (Japanese) NEC press release." I'd love to see before and afters to see how well this works.

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Re:Ocr? by BJH · 2004-02-24 01:33 · Score: 4, Informative

Because OCRing Japanese text is a lot more difficult than with English text?

I'm not kidding - there are Japanese OCR apps, but the accuracy is way below English OCR unless you're using a really good page image.