The market for large-format flatbed scanners is shrinking, so products turn over slowly and development is far behind my expectations. That said, the Epson GT-1500 doesn’t look like a bad choice for tight budgets. It has a relatively low maximum resolution of only 600DPI, but has the highest claimed scan speed of 30 seconds at [...]
Posted January 30, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: archive, archives, digital archive, document imaging, large format scanner, libraries, library, scanner, scanners. 2 Comments.
Engadget yesterday had a story about the Mobile Plate Hunter 900, a device that mounts on police cars and scans 500 to 800 license plates an hour. More details are in the Wired News story, where LA County police commander Sid Heal notes that the system is hands-off: “It doesn’t require the [officer] to do [...]
Posted June 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: LA county, license plate, license plate reader, license plates, mobile, pervasive, police, police car, police cruiser, police state, scanner, surveillance. 2 Comments.