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- bag2p, on 01/04/2009, -1/+56$49? Shouldn't i just invest in an actual scanner at this point?
- kalbanan, on 01/03/2009, -1/+53http://www.scanr.com/ does the same thing and has been around for years.
- MidnightRIder77, on 01/03/2009, -4/+46At $49 I'd rather just crop it myself. Cool application, but not quite worth it. Also no OSX or Linux version.
- absolutelytrue, on 05/26/2009, -4/+30This looks pretty awesome.
- robmayol, on 01/03/2009, -5/+26Waiting for a Mac version or an online version...
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -1/+13Now you can scan your butt using a camera!
- MadEnvoy, on 01/04/2009, -3/+15Virtual scrotum shaver?
- doiveo, on 01/03/2009, -1/+12The book curve fix would make a good add on for Photoshop.
- carlonchox911, on 01/04/2009, -4/+14If by $49 they mean a quick trip to the piratebay then for all means im in!
- EvilBunnys, on 01/04/2009, -1/+9Mine does.
- emt1451, on 01/04/2009, -1/+8Oh? Does it correct for orientation and the bending spine of a book? Didn't think so...
- GD223, on 01/04/2009, -2/+9Virus total scan:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/fc9ba0da826ec8a ...
Dirtier than you mother - Hilyin, on 01/04/2009, -1/+8Yep, needs Mac version. This would be cool for me, as I could scan in a book in about 30 minutes with my tripod, DSLR and remote shutter trigger.
- Slackdragon, on 01/04/2009, -3/+10The details of my life are quite inconsequential. Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with a low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.
My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloë with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.
My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds--pretty standard really.
At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum. It's breathtaking--I suggest you try it. - Rikkochet, on 01/04/2009, -0/+7The only plus I can see is you don't have another hunk of equipment taking up space on your desk.
- Krissam, on 01/04/2009, -1/+7I'm a PC, and i refuse to use ms software.
- AgentMull, on 01/04/2009, -3/+9http://www.qipit.com/ Does the same thing. I've used it a bit for school documents.
- houndeyex, on 01/04/2009, -0/+6AIG Direct
- tnoy, on 01/04/2009, -0/+6That doesn't correct for the curvature in a book.
- BradBrown, on 01/04/2009, -0/+5Add a fart button while you're at it.
- Hilyin, on 01/04/2009, -0/+5Most keygens / cracks are marked wrongly as trojans and/or malware, this is due to antivirus companies supporting companies against copyright infringement moreso then keeping your computer healthy. But knowing whether or not a program is in actuality malware or a trojan, is a much harder task. Anti-virus programs lieing to you ftl.
- Krissam, on 01/04/2009, -2/+7i'm waiting for a linux version
edit: but seing as it's a .net app, i guess we can wait for a very long time. - UselessTrivia, on 01/04/2009, -0/+5Not familiar with the software, but photographing books instead of scanning is something libraries have been doing for a while. As long as you don't need to reproduce a print it usually makes a perfectly legible digital copy. It even works for OCR if you used a high enough resolution camera.
- ChunkerMunker, on 01/04/2009, -0/+4Agree, Evernote is so much better, specially since they have the phone version that syncs to your desktop.
- tnoy, on 01/04/2009, -1/+5That does not seem to correct for the curvature in books, which would make it near useless for what I do at work. It also looks like its only available as an on-line service, which would be beyond useless when you're in need of processing a massive amount of images.
There are a few software packages out there that do exactly this, it is nothing new, but at $50 a seat it is FAR cheaper than what I've used in the past. It will be interesting to see how it stacks up to the more professional software at processing images in bulk. - reichec, on 01/04/2009, -0/+4I took a picture of my bare butt and it spit out the wikipedia entry for..... (discuss)
- ray4389, on 01/04/2009, -1/+5I agree
- gator2000, on 01/04/2009, -1/+4...your yearbook picture.
- Jerky1312, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3I made the trip and I couldn't find it.
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3It'd be cheaper and faster to just buy a scanner nowadays. Those Lexmark All-in-One things are pretty cheap... It's just the ink that costs a fortune.
- emt1451, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3I LOVE YOU for showing me Evernote. I wish I had this years ago. Too bad the OCR isn't done locally.. but still... very cool.
- TaintBrush, on 01/04/2009, -1/+4In Photoshop, File > Automate > Photomerge works great for this kind of thing, assuming you do it correctly, but I guess if you're one of two people who haven't downloaded Photoshop, $49 is cheaper.
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3What? my digital camera I had 6 years ago could do this..why is this news?
- EtherGnat, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3I've used some Photoshop filters designed to correct barrel distortion/pincushioning before that might work for that purpose.
- tnoy, on 01/04/2009, -1/+4Most of the Photoshop filters fall apart when trying to correct curvature in a book. It would be easy to do it for one image, but I've never seen anyone be able to make an action (or extendscript) that would work on near any image.
- EvilBunnys, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3And if you would actually look you would see that all the reputable anti-virus scanners didn't find anything.
Avast
AVG
BitDefender
Kaspersky
NOD32
And most other ones marked it as only suspicious. The same will happen to almost every keygen. False positives. - JudgeMonkey, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3Yes, but if he actually bothered to look for it and didn't spend that time making that post, he wouldn't have seemed as edgy and cool.
- MtheoryX, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3Oh, your camera corrected for curvature in a book? I call shenanigans.
- ReidFleming, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3Speaking of useless...
- farmertomato, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3Two clicks to find out I'd have to downgrade to Windows to use this toy. Buried.
- MtheoryX, on 01/04/2009, -0/+3And some boobs.
- jeremymccurdy, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2The ink costs more than the printer if you bought it on sale. It's good for the scanner part but using it as a printer will start costing kidneys on the black market before long.
- jeremymccurdy, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2Snapter is of no use to me, but I'm loving Evernote! Thanks!
- Bamboolemur, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2This would be great for sites like textbook torrents (r.i.p.)
- emt1451, on 01/04/2009, -4/+6This is over a year old.
http://digg.com/software/New_software_turns_digica ... - shaun1018, on 01/04/2009, -2/+4Look in to Evernote first if you haven't already.
Evernote.com - mrBitch, on 01/04/2009, -1/+3@Krissam RE: " I'm a PC, and i refuse to use ms software."
Zing! - jasonh1234, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2I'm on it.
- ckedge, on 01/04/2009, -1/+2Scanners are SO SLOW! Doing this with a camera is 100 times faster. A camera has a whole two dimensional array to take the whole image in an instant, while a scanner has to slowly drag a one dimensional array across the thing, and *then* it's got to transfer the big huge raw image to your PC, which is also slow.
- eschrichtius, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1$50 for this garbage? What about adding some real functionality, like OCR.
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