Waaaaay OT, sorry.

[virgil huston]

>
> > 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.

Virgil


> >
> > >     thanks for any insights,
> > >
> > >     gary
>