Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry.

From: Vizion (vizion_at_vizion.occoxmail.com)
Date: 11/29/05

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:45:46 -0800

    On Tuesday 29 November 2005 05:05, the author virgil huston contributed to
    the dialogue on-
     Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry.:

    >> > 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 ... .
    >
    >Two thoughts: One is to print all the pages out and then scan them. You have
    >to find a fiche reader with a printer and it will cost. Second, and I have
    >no idea if this will work, putting the fiche on the scanner bed and
    >enlarging/manipulating the image prior to scanning, kind of like scanning a
    >35mm slide. I guess this depends on how small the fiche text is.

    That is unlikely to work because the fiche resolution is so high - and would
    require a scanner with an equivalently high resolution.

    A camera on a standard lab microscope is probably the best way to go if you
    want to digitize the result.

    david
    >
    >Virgil
    >
    >> > > thanks for any insights,
    >> > >
    >> > > gary
    >
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