Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com) Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:35:42 -0400

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NewScientist.com news service Duncan Graham-Rowe New software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page. Commuters in Japan already anger bookstore owners and newsagents by using existing cellphone software to try to take snapshots of newspaper and magazine articles to finish reading on the train to work. This is only possible because some phones now offer very rudimentary optical character recognition (OCR) software which allows small amounts of text to be captured and digitised from images. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7998

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