Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry.

From: Gary Kline (kline_at_tao.thought.org)
Date: 11/29/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:51:26 -0800
To: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>

    On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:15:06PM -0800, Vizion wrote:
    > On Monday 28 November 2005 22:05, the author Gary Kline contributed to the
    > dialogue on-
    > Waaaaay OT, sorry.:
    >
    > > Folks,
    > >
    > > This is one of my more obscure questions and involves scanning
    > > not paper but something they used to store books, magazines,
    > > and newspapers--before the computer age. It is called a
    > > microfiche (or fiche). A friend got a copy of a rare
    > > out-of-print, not-for-sale book on microfiche. We're looking
    > > for some means of scanning this film into a scanner with
    > > OCR. So far, he has tried a camera with 8G memory. No joy,
    > > the scanner sees garbage. Anybody out there ever have anything
    > > like this prob? The book is from 1913 so it is well in the
    > > public domain. I've already written Google; zero response.
    > >
    > > I want to get this book up on my site, fully HTML it so that
    > > everybody has the opportunity to ready it ... .
    > >
    > > thanks for any insights,
    > >
    > > gary
    >
    > Its a long time since I have handled microfiche but my guess is you will need
    > to mount your camera onto a microfiche reader or a microscope. The
    > resolution of a microfiche image is really high - far higher than the camera
    > you are using so I think you may need something to enlarge the image for you
    > to photograph.
    >
    > my two pennorth
    >
    > david
    >

            Microscope; that never cross my mind. I think my pal took stuff
            to the main library one night and tried capturing the data from
            the reader. Not very successful; I don't know the details.
            (We are around 1200 miles apart.) Any ballpark SWAG what power
            lens might work here? I only touched m'fiche one time ever, so
            have no idea. Money is an issue since there are 400+ pages.

            gary 

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   Gary Kline     kline@thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix
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