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The new CN50 and CN4 launched by ITC supports MDI (Mobile Document Imaging). ITC calls the technology eMDI for enhanced MDI.

The new CN50 and CN4 launched by ITC supports MDI (Mobile Document Imaging). ITC calls the technology eMDI for enhanced MDI.

MDI is a technique to capture documents in a more reasonable way than by just taking a photo of the document. If you make a photo of a document, the result is not usable for online reading or archiving. You don't need color and the ‘images’ will be big in size, have uneven background, maybe tilted and sheered. MDI will take images of a document and correct the orientation, crop the image to the document borders, remove angles and normalize the image.

MDI can be used instead of flatbed scanners with similar results. The document scans are small and can be easily transferred to online services.

Need more background: Xerox MDI document

Here are some examples:

photo001

A photo of a delivery label

mdi_01

A grayscale MDI of the label

photo002

Another photo, this time in landscape

mdi_02

The MDI of the label in b&w

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Comments and Discussions

 
QuestionHow "new" is this technology? Pin
H. Gohel19-Jan-10 15:38
H. Gohel19-Jan-10 15:38 
AnswerRe: How "new" is this technology? Pin
hjgode19-Jan-10 17:56
hjgode19-Jan-10 17:56 
Hello

the idea was developed by Xerox (as many other things we use: ie graphical user interface, a mouse to navigate a GUI etc.). They published this technology in 2004. I did not find any working product using this technology until ITC (Intermec Technologies Inc.) did launch there new mobile computers CN4 and CN50.

Links may have a short live and so I dont like to publish links, especially for web sites of big companies as Xerox is one. I dont like to be responsible for broken links.
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GeneralRe: How "new" is this technology? Pin
R_PR20-Jan-10 21:50
R_PR20-Jan-10 21:50 
GeneralRe: How "new" is this technology? Pin
hjgode21-Jan-10 1:39
hjgode21-Jan-10 1:39 
Generallove this technology Pin
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