Document Camera – The digital visualizer & Presenter

Document Cameras- popularly known as docucams…..They are used to capture real time image of any object and present it to a larger audience. But they cannot be treated equal to traditional projectors as it offers many advantages over the overhead projectors. The digital visualizer can enlarge anything you want to project through it.

The images, transparencies, documents, three-dimensional objects, illustrations kept under or in front of the camera can be further displayed to a large audience. Its applications are found in various fields like businesses, educational institutes & government.

Often document cameras are used along with interactive whiteboards to avail the full functionality of a typical document camera. Together with the system, the presentation is made easy. You can show your audience every edge of the object you want by zoom in & out functionality.

Document cameras are extremely flexible in terms of the jobs that they can do. Some have got moveable mountings (like goose-neck) so that the user can rotate the camera to closely examine specific dimension of the object. They can connect with LCDs, interactive whiteboards and other such displays.

Applications

Document cameras are extremely famous in corporate environment. In a business environment, a document camera is used to capture the image of any important document and maintain a copy of it as an image file.

The speaker of a meeting might want to present the monthly ROI reports to the members of the meeting so he may use it to generate the real time video and display it on the screen. It also allows the presenter to enlarge a specific part of the report to emphasize on some particular point. Mostly the equipment is used in conjunction with a smartboard to demonstrate the ideas efficiently.

These are widely used in courtrooms to let the defender present the piece of evidence to jury and the observers.