[Reader-users] reading cans and can'ts

[JD Townsend]

Hello:

To read a can I first find the label seam.  Most often the pretty 
picture does not scan well so I try to shoot the camera  the end 
of the label, the part that ends up tucked under the start of the 
label is the ending of the end;  so I use that as the edge of the 
shot.

I like to put the can on it's side and hold the camera a good 16 
inches away.  Sometimes I get nothing, but most of the time I get 
enough to know what I've got - soup or cranberries.


JD