From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 06:51:37 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 F01C516A41F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:51:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD0543D62 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:51:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAT6pUu0010925; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:51:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jAT6pRXs010924; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:51:26 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Vizion Message-ID: <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> References: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 06:51:38 -0000 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix