Re: Book Scanner Idea

Eugene Leitl (eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 18:20:36 +0400 (MSD)

Michelle Jones writes:
> useful sources are copyright expired. i would cheerfully give
> 1k clams for such a device. spike

The scanning/OCR process is cheap enough, a reliable robot to page the book would be significantly more expensive, though. I plan to scan my hom library by hand, to make it more transportable. As to outlaw web publishing: people are doing it for quite a while, already. Unfortunately, Internet gets progressively regulated, so you're likely to face stiff charges for copyright infringement in the future.

'gene