[Milsurplus] Copying from Books

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Al,

Did you try it with the camera set to B&W?  

The implication from the ad photos they have is that it would clean up 
background (for example, turn yellowed paper to white).  Does it do anything in 
that area?

In a message dated 11/22/2009 2:08:37 PM Central Standard Time, al at ar88.net 
writes: 
> Hi John,
> 
> Nobody spoke up so here goes.  You can download the package anonymously, 
> and try it for 15 days.  I did this and took a quick look.  Yes, it does 
> some neat things.  You can grab a shot of an open book and it will 
> straighten up the perspective and split it into two pages.  It will deal 
> with multiple images and make the whole thing into a .pdf.
> 
> I found it a little less than intuitive to use, and I'm disappointed 
> that it doesn't seem to do anything sophisticated with the images like 
> enhancing contrast or making them black and white to reduce resulting 
> file size.  Fifty buck seems like too much money for the way I'm likely 
> to use it.
> 
> YMMV,
> Al
> 

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