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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Meh. HD space now cost around 75 cents per gigabyte. That means (ignoring for simplicity the small difference made by the base 2 vs base 10 measurement of drive sizes) a 300 page scan (at 4 MB per page) cost a buck to store. (Not like the Bad Old Days of measuring hard drive prices in dollars per megabyte.) |
I agree. In fact, I've gone ahead and purchased (through eBay) a used 1-terabyte, USB, external HD. It's working great and I plan to make all my page captures dump straight into a book capture directory on that when I finish creating my 5MP webcam rig. BTW, I should have images from it to post by Tuesday. The dang thing has a *base* resolution of 5MP, a 'digital zoom' resolution of 20MP and has a focusable lens which can focus quite close enough for page capture even on an MMPB. And it only cost me $10!
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BTW, I've had my scanner over a week and discovered something just last night-- between the reversible black/white top plate and the scanner lid there is stored a 8.5x11 sheet of stiff black plastic (the same material used on the black side of the plate.) No doubt included so that you can slip it behind the page of the book being scanned when there are bleedthrough problems.
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Woulda bought one, but have a REALLY tight budget!
Derek