Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:05:26 -0500 From: virgil huston <virgil.huston@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry. Message-ID: <3cf08c810511290505s3a119ac6h1c99fc12a6ad9571@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> References: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org>
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> > > 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 hav= e 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 >
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