hardware: scanner info? webpage

["Fred C. Strom" <strom@MIT.EDU>]

Hi SFC,

I've been thinking about the hardware for the SFC.

I heard that someone has a good document feeding scanner that works
with linux. Would you send me the info if you have such a scanner?

I looked at digital cameras, and it looks like a 6 megapixel camera
would cost about $2K; it would be able to quickly take a picture of an
8.5" by 11" page of text at about 250 dpi.

A less expensive option would be to use a low-res video camera to get
the thumbnails and then a document feeding scanner to scan the
documents.

Touch screen LCDs that would work are available and they run from $800
to $2000 depending on the size (15" to 20", but I didn't find any with
more than 1280x1024 resolution).

For the microphone, a headset with a boom microphone would probably
make speech recognition easiest.

I just put together an initial SFC info page
(http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/sfc/). Feel free to modify it or send me
comments and I will modify it.

Fred