Scan files with the fingers is possible

In laboratories Japanese group Fujitsu where man is the heart of the research , simply place a document on a table and point the finger the party interested, to be digitized. "There are situations in which analog objects (paper, pen, slate) are still the most practical ways to take notes , exchange ideas in a meeting or teaching, "a Fujitsu engineer in the research center of this group in Kawasaki , a suburb of Tokyo. However, it would need to retain this information could easily, to sort and transmit, which requires transforming them  into digital data. But the operation to enter data into a computer, or to digitize annotations conventionally with a scanner, is usually very annoying. Given these difficulties, researchers created a compact Fujitsu that integrates two cameras and a mini-projector to "scan" documents placed on a table, filming and digitizing what is selected by the user's finger with a gesture similar to you would with a mouse or on a touch screen. This system can also automatically scan various " post-it "placed on a table or business cards. Then, all these digital elements are projected on the table supplanting their analog ancestors and can be manipulated by finger , whose movements are detected by the cameras. This makes it possible, for example, create a computer link between two documents and make a selective classification , which is recorded on a computer connected to the device. For example, to scan the names in a travel brochure, they call to images found in a database, which appear in the table and even placed in the right places if you also gets there a map. Fujitsu hopes to transform the prototype into a commercial product by the spring of 2015.