February 10, 2005
Documenting images with cameras
Scientists at Xerox's Research Center Europe in France are working on a technology that will effectively add the ability to scan documents or create digital images of presentations using a camera phone with a minimal resolution of one megapixel, reports the The New York Times via The Wireless Weblog.
"The technology checks and corrects blurriness and shadows, and then compresses an image into a file that can be transmitted either by MMS or Bluetooth. Xerox expects the technology to hit the marketplace later this year.
"Imagine discreetly photographing contracts, notes jotted on a whiteboard or other handwritten information while on a research mission or a sales call, and later converting them into a format for processing, either in hard copy or on your computer."
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