Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
I'd simply run the back of the front page through the printer. These are all "loose" documents, not bound but stapled and such.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
You get about 50 characters out of a normal size QR code with some error correction. Some use tiny dots that can hold around a 1000 characters.
Not sure QR codes would really help you, when you could just print that info in plain text along the margins, or in the metadata for the document file.
Not sure QR codes would really help you, when you could just print that info in plain text along the margins, or in the metadata for the document file.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
Or on the back, of course. But the idea is to load the data into their catalog without further transcription, so I might do a tab-limited file they can import. At least enough to trigger a match with the master database I'll be genning as time allows.Tyrannical wrote:You get about 50 characters out of a normal size QR code with some error correction. Some use tiny dots that can hold around a 1000 characters.
Not sure QR codes would really help you, when you could just print that info in plain text along the margins, or in the metadata for the document file.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
We have posters from our library around the school, with pictures of new kid's books, each with one of these type of symbols. Apparently, kids scan them with their phones or iPads, and they get an instant book blurb...
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
NH&HC likes my idea, so it may only take four years for them to implement it, by which time it will be obsolete.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
Now, if only they actually read them.JimC wrote:We have posters from our library around the school, with pictures of new kid's books, each with one of these type of symbols. Apparently, kids scan them with their phones or iPads, and they get an instant book blurb...
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
It's like every other IT gadget. It goes obsolete as soon as you find out about it.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:NH&HC likes my idea, so it may only take four years for them to implement it, by which time it will be obsolete.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
Yeah, but it's more flexible than barcodes, so they like it. And using obsolete equipment don't phase them.FBM wrote:It's like every other IT gadget. It goes obsolete as soon as you find out about it.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:NH&HC likes my idea, so it may only take four years for them to implement it, by which time it will be obsolete.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
Ah-ha. I forgot we were talking about the gummit.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
And a peripheral effort at that. Never mind that keeping the troops current and well-educated would seem to be a good idea.FBM wrote:Ah-ha. I forgot we were talking about the gummit.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
Meh. They got guns, bombs and bullets. Education would just get in their way. Thinking about things never killed nobody.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:And a peripheral effort at that. Never mind that keeping the troops current and well-educated would seem to be a good idea.FBM wrote:Ah-ha. I forgot we were talking about the gummit.
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Re: Being scanned from beyond the grave ...
Not perhaps as obsolete as some. Image capture of some sort will always be with us, and the pattern recognition is fairly generic. It's not as specific or as tied to a particular "reader" technology as bar codes.FBM wrote:It's like every other IT gadget. It goes obsolete as soon as you find out about it.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:NH&HC likes my idea, so it may only take four years for them to implement it, by which time it will be obsolete.
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