Camera phones as high-precision scanners

New software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page.

How often have you had a situation where a student needs library reserve items scanned and converted to an accessible format and your office could not get hands on the documents? Wouldn't it be great if students could scan their own materials and either eMail them to us for conversion or drop then into their own computer and take care of it themselves?

I can dream can't I...