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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looking for digitizing input devices...
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Date: 6 Sep 90 19:33:27 GMT
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In article <1990Sep05.133132.6175@unx.sas.com> sasgwb@mozart.unx.sas.com (Gary Black) writes:
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>I'm looking for input devices which I can use to digitize data from maps.  So 
>far the most promising seems to be the Easyl 2000 tablets, but the price is a
>little high.  (around $400.00).

Have you considered direct digitization?  I think the PerfectVision software
has some edge detection and image processing that might be helpful.  It would
sure be faster than hand-tracing.  You'd probably need to drop into
DeluxePaint to clean it up a little...

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