A Macintosh and a Windows '95 computer with scanners are available in the Presentations Lab of the Instructional Resources Center for use by students, and for faculty and staff, in the IDEA Lab , for image scanning and optical character recognition . The Macintosh is also capable of still image capture from video and can read and write to disks formated for Windows and can save in formats appropriate to both operating systems Instruction on the use of the systems is available.
Image scanning The scanner can acquire images in a wide range of sizes and resolutions.
Images are acquired directly into Adobe Photoshop. If you only have a printed copy of a document, optical character recognition software creates a editable text file from printed materials. The software can read most typestyles and sizes. The Macintosh is equipped to capture images from video sources such as videotape, cameras and laserdisc players.