how can scan a paper document ?

[jotis]

I want to make a software to scan paper documents and save as Images or PDF or Word etc.

Anyone know that how can do this with Basic4ppc ?

Please help, :sign0085:

thanks
jotis

 

[ExcludeReality]

If I understand correctly, you want to scan a paper document,
and recognize properties (Such as text and images).
Then load them into a computer.

Theoretically it is possible, however the technology is very abstruse.
You would have to use the internal camera on the device to take a picture of the document.
Then map it with landmarks (Such as corners and paragraphs).
The factors would be endless (Light, Resolution, Angle, etc.)

I recently made a desktop application with the webcam library.
It took a picture every 10th second, and if the picture was any diffrent than the last one,
an alarm would go off (Good for burglers )

My point is, you might have to rethink the idea.
Of course, I may not have understod correctly :sign0161:

Article about iPhone app that scans checks using a camera:
Bank Will Allow Customers to Deposit Checks by iPhone

 

[jotis]

Thanks for your reply,

I just want to scan a paper doc and save it as image or doc or pdf format.
You know how can it implement with Basic4ppc ?

Please help
rgds
Jotis

 

[Ariel_Z]

Do you need to interact with the scanner device itself? Do you need to send commands to the scanner and receive answers?

 

[ExcludeReality]

I just want to scan a paper doc and save it as image or doc or pdf format.
You know how can it implement with Basic4ppc ?

I'm not very good with hardware, so I can't help you with a scanner.
But I can say that it's not possible to make a .doc or .pdf format file in Basic4ppc

 

[jotis]

Do you need to interact with the scanner device itself? Do you need to send commands to the scanner and receive answers?

Yes, I have a HP scanner. So I will put the paper document there. And I will select the scanner in the basic4ppc application and give the parameters like paper size , Pixels, color etc etc. Then press the SCAN button in the basic4ppc application. So it will be saved as image or (Word format or PDF format). This is the work flow. I think now you got the idea.

My question is how can it implement this with Basic4ppc ?

thanks and regards Jotis :sign0085: