"Feed-thru" scanners or digicams as scanners?

In article <siegman-97864C.09445319032006.RemoveThis@news.stanford.edu>,
AES <siegman.RemoveThis@stanford.edu> wrote:

> 3) Or anyone who can offer experience-based advice on using a
> tripod-mounted (and possibly computer-controlled) 4 or 5 Megapixel
> digital camera as a fast B&W scanner?

Well, I did it once. It worked pretty well-- certainly faster than
running the sheets through my scanner one by one. If you can get the
tripod to point straight down, you're pretty much set. The only trick
is lighting. You may want to try several test shots first to make sure
the image quality is OK. Once you do that you're ready to go.

It may be worth pointing out that I had no interest in anything like
OCR, or in printing the resulting images, I only wanted them viewable on
my Mac's screen. I expect they'd print fine, but I don't have enough
OCR experience to really guess whether the images would be suited to
that.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X.
Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more.
See http://www.atomicbird.com/

Fujitsu "SnapScan", recommended by someone in earlier post, although
slightly pricey does look really good, and has multiple rave reviews
from other users.