I don't know of any software that will do this as well as just biting the bullet and scanning it. If you have a scanner, it's a no-brainer. If you have access to an advanced copier, you can scan the pages to a PDF file. Used to do this all the time.
The original design of NetPhotoClasses.org (http://www.netphotoclasses.org/classes) used some Flash for displaying instructional presentations but after it didn't work as expected on either a new build of Firefox or IE 7 (worked on IE6, Microsoft told me it was my site... go figure) all Flash was removed and everything now comes out of php. The interesting thing with the Firefox problem was it failed dismally on both the Linux and Windows versions.
If you did the work as part of your employment you don't own the work, your employer does. As such they can do pretty much what they want with it. You can object (tactfully) but it's not up to you to file the patent, it's your employer's decision. Of course, it's a different story if you did the work on your own time and took it to your employer... you can or not file a patent as your beliefs dictate.
You might want to investigate an inexpensive copy stand. Generally the base of the stand has a registration/alignment system you can use and the lights are set at a 45-degree angle to eliminate or minimize reflection. This will work best if the magazines are simple fold-and-staple binding. If they are perfect binding, you will have to break the spine so they will lay as flat as possible. The other thing you will have to do is cover the page you are photographing with a sheet of the cleanest glass you can get. But a word of caution here... no magazine will lay perfectly flat, so there will be some page distortion in the image. If you are going to do this (break the spine) you will be better off with a flatbed scanner which will cost considerably less than the stand and the four 250-watt lamps.
I taught computers in a high school- after all of the joking, etc., here is the serious reply... the Clorox wipes are great and what the school nurse recommended. Wide down the keyboard and all other "hard surfaces"... for the screen, just a rag dampened with some distilled water. That should do it. You really should do this periodically if the computer is shared at all.
We really don't need a study to show this... just go into any school and ask any teacher who is now completely teaching to the test because there isn't any time for anything else. They say this appears to be related to No Child Left Behind? Sorry folks, this is a direct result of that disaster. In some schools, we have gotten to the point where if it isn't a graduation requirement or directly assessed on the test, it's not being taught. And here is the kicker... the kids, at least the high school kids, are now at the point of asking if it is on the test or not. If it's not on the test, they really don't want to have anything to do with it. Sure, they will do the work and get the grade because they need it to graduate, but they are really just geared to the test now. Not college, not the world of work, not anything after high school... it's the test. This started with math, reading and writing. This year adds science and next year adds social studies. We are on the way to creating Stepford teachers and Stepford children. And all of this is name of improvement! Before NCLB we had one of the greatest educational systems in the world because we trusted our teachers and had true parent involvement. Now with fruits of the Reagan/Bush I reforms pushing outcome based education that led to NCLB under Bush II, we rank something like 15th. Outcome based education is interesting... you would think the outcome would be what the kid retains on leaving school and how they can apply to life. Not under NCLB... the only outcome here is how well they do on the test. Go figure... and yes... I taught.
The school where I teach made the switch to Open Office more than a year ago. The kids (high school) had absolutely no problems at all- they use it for all of their work, creating the yearbook, etc. etc. Not one problem. The problems were with two staff members- they could do everything they did in MS Office, but, as one staffer said, "I can do it all and some things are easier, but I still like Office." Old habits die hard.
We made the switch for a number of reasons but the biggest one is that we are planning to go all Linux (Debian) in the very near future.
As for training, I handled all of that. There were a few problems but overall it went very smoothly. It took one in-service session. And what I found was the staff members who had the biggest difficulty were those who had problems working with Office as well.
As for the compatibility issues- we have had a few but we would have had them anyway... After the new version of office was released, I got a couple of files in the new Word format- couldn't open them in Open Office and couldn't open them in any older version of Office either. But I did find an online conversion site and used that.
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I don't know of any software that will do this as well as just biting the bullet and scanning it. If you have a scanner, it's a no-brainer. If you have access to an advanced copier, you can scan the pages to a PDF file. Used to do this all the time.
The original design of NetPhotoClasses.org (http://www.netphotoclasses.org/classes) used some Flash for displaying instructional presentations but after it didn't work as expected on either a new build of Firefox or IE 7 (worked on IE6, Microsoft told me it was my site... go figure) all Flash was removed and everything now comes out of php. The interesting thing with the Firefox problem was it failed dismally on both the Linux and Windows versions.
If you did the work as part of your employment you don't own the work, your employer does. As such they can do pretty much what they want with it. You can object (tactfully) but it's not up to you to file the patent, it's your employer's decision. Of course, it's a different story if you did the work on your own time and took it to your employer... you can or not file a patent as your beliefs dictate.
You might want to investigate an inexpensive copy stand. Generally the base of the stand has a registration/alignment system you can use and the lights are set at a 45-degree angle to eliminate or minimize reflection. This will work best if the magazines are simple fold-and-staple binding. If they are perfect binding, you will have to break the spine so they will lay as flat as possible. The other thing you will have to do is cover the page you are photographing with a sheet of the cleanest glass you can get. But a word of caution here... no magazine will lay perfectly flat, so there will be some page distortion in the image. If you are going to do this (break the spine) you will be better off with a flatbed scanner which will cost considerably less than the stand and the four 250-watt lamps.
I taught computers in a high school- after all of the joking, etc., here is the serious reply... the Clorox wipes are great and what the school nurse recommended. Wide down the keyboard and all other "hard surfaces"... for the screen, just a rag dampened with some distilled water. That should do it. You really should do this periodically if the computer is shared at all.
We really don't need a study to show this... just go into any school and ask any teacher who is now completely teaching to the test because there isn't any time for anything else. They say this appears to be related to No Child Left Behind? Sorry folks, this is a direct result of that disaster. In some schools, we have gotten to the point where if it isn't a graduation requirement or directly assessed on the test, it's not being taught. And here is the kicker... the kids, at least the high school kids, are now at the point of asking if it is on the test or not. If it's not on the test, they really don't want to have anything to do with it. Sure, they will do the work and get the grade because they need it to graduate, but they are really just geared to the test now. Not college, not the world of work, not anything after high school... it's the test. This started with math, reading and writing. This year adds science and next year adds social studies. We are on the way to creating Stepford teachers and Stepford children. And all of this is name of improvement! Before NCLB we had one of the greatest educational systems in the world because we trusted our teachers and had true parent involvement. Now with fruits of the Reagan/Bush I reforms pushing outcome based education that led to NCLB under Bush II, we rank something like 15th. Outcome based education is interesting... you would think the outcome would be what the kid retains on leaving school and how they can apply to life. Not under NCLB... the only outcome here is how well they do on the test. Go figure... and yes... I taught.
The school where I teach made the switch to Open Office more than a year ago. The kids (high school) had absolutely no problems at all- they use it for all of their work, creating the yearbook, etc. etc. Not one problem. The problems were with two staff members- they could do everything they did in MS Office, but, as one staffer said, "I can do it all and some things are easier, but I still like Office." Old habits die hard. We made the switch for a number of reasons but the biggest one is that we are planning to go all Linux (Debian) in the very near future. As for training, I handled all of that. There were a few problems but overall it went very smoothly. It took one in-service session. And what I found was the staff members who had the biggest difficulty were those who had problems working with Office as well. As for the compatibility issues- we have had a few but we would have had them anyway... After the new version of office was released, I got a couple of files in the new Word format- couldn't open them in Open Office and couldn't open them in any older version of Office either. But I did find an online conversion site and used that.