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Moshe
21st of May 2003 (Wed), 15:19
I work for a Title Search company. One of our services is to search in the town hall of records to determine the legal ownership of properties to be sold or re-financed.

As a result, we're toying with the idea of equipping our searchers with digital cameras and laptops so they can photograph pages to be captured like in the old spy movies.

The problem is that in the old movies the spies used film cameras. My attempts with an old 1 Megapixel camera have yielded rather fuzzy results at best.

Can anybody tell me what kind of specs I'd need in a digitial camera to crisply capture an 8 1/2 by 11 page of 10 point or larger text, with good character recognition at full size printing?

DanyaL
21st of May 2003 (Wed), 16:02
You can take completely clear 35mm film quality shots with a 3 Mega pixel camera and the right lighting conditions.
As is my expierience.

CyberDyneSystems
21st of May 2003 (Wed), 19:08
I cincur 3 megapixles should be more than adequate. You may want to even try a good quality 2 mega pixel camera. Although I've never tried to decode the results with OCR,. I have very succesfully taken digital photos of documents with my old 2.1 megapixel Olympus camera.