Waaaaay OT, sorry.

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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
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>> the
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>> > dialogue on-
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>> >  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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