Correction on previous message: I meant 32 gigapixels, not megapixels. Digital
cameras now typically come with 2 gigapixels. That is, the number of pixels in
a single image shot, which would enable one to use the digital camera as a
snap scanner for things like both opposite pages of an open book.
I have found that, generally, the place to save money is on image acquisition.
One can use cheap labor (graduate students, volunteers) for that. Cheap
notebook computers and cheap, portable flatbed scanners are fine for that. But
mainly one should use cheap, fast storage. The advantage of the
magneto-optical drives and their media is they are not just cheap and
permanent, they are also fairly fast, both to read and to write, unlike CD-RW.
Can use them as hard-drive equivalents. They can write fast enough to capture
full-motion video.
USB and SCSI interfacing does increase throughput, but a faster processor will
do more for you than more or faster RAM in the critical recognition phase, and
for proofreading there is no good substitute for "speedproofreading", a
combination of speedreading and proofreading ability. I can speedread for
content at up to 20,000 wpm, and speedproofread at about 5,000 wpm, which
makes me two orders of magnitude more productive than most people are who do
this kind of thing. Takes a lot of practice, but it is worth it.
--Jon
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