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I just hate it when I'm inking on my tablet and somebody hands me *ugh* a sheet of paper! J
ust so we're on the same page, when I say tablet PC I am talking about the "slate" style ones which are basically a computer contained entirely within the screen (not notebook style). Anyway, the idea is
to build a scanner into the back of one. You could open a text-recognition program on the pc, set it on top of the paper you want to scan, and "raise" the text into the 21st century.
Obviously, there would be a screen protector on the back of the pc to prevent fingerprints, it could just hinge out of the way and maybe double as a stand to prop the computer up for reading.
Use the screen itself
http://mobilemental...one-scanner-screen/
Great minds think alike - a lot of great ideas are already being worked on [neutrinos_shadow, Jul 14 2009]
Indutrial PC
http://www.br-autom..._1=Industrial%20PCs
See anotation [dev45, Jul 16 2009]
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nifty, but how is it going to work ? |
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You replace the back panel of the tablet with a regular paper scanner, like the one on my scanner/printer combo at home. You would have to shrink it to match the size of the tablet and then make the internal components thinner, but I think it could be done and still keep the thickness at 1/2 inch or less. There is already plenty of software that can recognize text vs pictures and create a word/onenote document out of it. |
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I notice that some modern tablets have cameras in them, much as many modern mobile telephones do. I wonder if some clever optics would allow the same CCD to be used to capture the contents of a document as is used to take photographs of the idiot that crashed into your back bumper. |
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My cell phone has a camera that will OCR a business card (quite well, actually). There's no reason the solution couldn't be scaled up. |
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Yep. The camera solution is the way to go, in my view. I've taken pics of documents & posters with my camera phone and then read them on my tablet - or even connected up to projector and annotated them for the audience. |
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//You would have to shrink it(scanner) to match the size of the tablet//
so if you had a 5x7" tablet then you'd need a way of holding the paper a few inches above the scanning surface... complex despite the shiatsu of flat tablet combined with flat scanner (also potentially combined with flat printer) |
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5x7" Tablet most I've worked with have 17" screens |
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//Tablet not = net book// no clue, I have neither (I'm posting on a machine that has a handcrank on the front (ok, not really but pretty close)) |
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It took some finding, but I knew I'd heard of something like this before (the link isn't exactly the one I'd met previously).
The screen itself is used as the scanning face, giving (of course) only a screen-res scan.
<Aside> [dev45] - a 17" slate-style tablet? I had trouble finding the 12.1" Fujitsu that I have; most available at the time were 10" or so. </a> |
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I have worked with 17 tablet monitors apparently they have not made it down the line yet Is I figured they would have by now we were installing them on print presses 2 years ago for peat sake. |
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flat screen touch and full X86 pc inside 3/4-1" thick used them for the control systems. ran a little slow if loaded with windows (we tried) but ran the control stuff like a dream
Found them changed a little but mostly the same cant find the thin client ones we used but vary similar |
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ok I started looking 12.1 is standard but
Fujitsu is making a nice line of 13.1" in convertible and 12.1 slate types. |
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Yep. I've had a Fujitsu P series tablet for about 4 years. It's the bees knees, as it were, and it's screen is 8.9in. |
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keep on taking the tablets... |
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