webcam...how do i make it focus on letters

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  1. stav

    stav Guest

    i have the logitech C505e business webcam but when i put a document near it...its blurry

    Is there any way i can fix this?
     
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  3. Kelsier

    Kelsier Producer

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    This camera has fixed focus

    Solution: Hold the document further away

    Reminds me of a tip I once read: "Don't waste money on expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to the object you wish to view"
     
  4. David Brock

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    You may need a webcam with a zoom or macro facility for that purpose. The 505 has neither.
     
  5. xorome

    xorome Audiosexual

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    When my laptop's cam broke I briefly used an Android phone with DroidCam on Windows; pretty sure it had auto focus.

    https://www.dev47apps.com/
     
  6. Garamondo Furbish

    Garamondo Furbish Audiosexual

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    what you want is an autofocus document camera that outputs hdmi natively, so you don't need a computer and software to run your camera. like the Ipevo vzr
    [​IMG]

    Note its a "DOCUMENT CAMERA" not a web cam, its made to actually work with documents, for classrooms, teaching, creating lessons and how to videos. a web cam is great for camming on the web, not so much for anything requiring autofocus,autorotation,etc.
     
  7. Will Kweks

    Will Kweks Audiosexual

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    For the webcam, as others said, not really.

    If you got a smartphone that's less than 10 years old, there's software (free, but not open source) available to scan it to PDF and then for OCR though I don't trust OCR myself. But it's a handy way to get your documents into digital format(s).

    For instance, iPhones have this built in: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108963
     
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