From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 06:15:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9B216A41F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:15:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao02.coxmail.com (dukecmmtao02.coxmail.com [68.99.120.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DEC43D46 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:15:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dns1 ([64.58.171.82]) by dukecmmtao02.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051129061528.PVOE6953.dukecmmtao02.coxmail.com@dns1>; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:15:28 -0500 From: Vizion To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:15:06 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline Subject: Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:15:13 -0000 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 -- 40 yrs navigating and computing in blue waters. English Owner & Captain of British Registered 60' bluewater Ketch S/V Taurus. Currently in San Diego, CA. Sailing bound for Europe via Panama Canal after completing engineroom refit.