Hi All,<br> I needed to scan a document. Unfortunately, i had no scanner. :( I then realized that I have  a webcam staring at me, i have mplayer and sure enough<br>  mplayer -tv driver=v4l2 tv:// -vf screenshot gives me a legible copy on pressing s!  Scanner el cheapo! <br>
So to the universirty students, <br> - Make a scanner from the webcam (Proof concept is already done) You can use pygtk, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/python-v4l2/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">python-v4l2</a> and of course python<br>
 - Use <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/">http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/</a> to make a cheap ocr plugin for your scanner. A sample binding <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/">http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/</a> already exists (I wouldn&#39;t try that.. It didn&#39;t work for me)<br>
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