Hi listers, Some of us depend on scanners to read books. I have used flatbed scanners but it's kind of tricky to turn pages over. Yesterday I found some information about the pearl scanner, that works like a camera picturing or photographing book pages. It makes the scanning process much easier because we just need to turn pages with the book on the same position. It's much faster. But the pearl scanner costs about 1500 dollars. If some of nokia's phones can photograph book pages, it's an important extra feature for talks users. If it's a new subject on this list and for talks developers, I guess it's already an important matter to consider. It's related to educational purposes and can make talks even more useful for visually impaired people. But if this idea of using phone cameras as a scanner has already been tryed and tests showed it doesn't work, please let me know. An aunt of mine who's a photographer told me it's fully possible to get book pages with a digital camera with macro function. Some of nokia cameras has macro lenses. I think it's a very important thing for us to research. If you have a n86 or a n95 or any other phone with good lenses, maybe you can check if you can access this camera functions such as macro mode, black and white mode, etc. Well, I know my english is sometimes confusing, so if I said something that is not comprehensible, plese ask me to explain again. Regards, Paulo _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks
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