From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 16:32:18 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 A6F0816A423 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:32:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D573D43D6E for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:32:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (webmail12-en1 [10.13.10.118]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout04/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id jATGWCHg010095 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:32:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail12 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mac.com (Xserve/webmail12/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id jATGWCME011745 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:32:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <14105956.1133281932021.JavaMail.pgiessel@mac.com> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:32:12 -0900 From: Peter Giessel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org in-reply-to: <438C5AB0.70009@pixelhammer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit references: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> <438C5AB0.70009@pixelhammer.com> X-Originating-IP: 158.145.111.132/instID=172 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 16:32:18 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > 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. You need a scanner that can scan film negatives. We have an epson flatbed at work that does, but there are others. You need to set up the scanner the same as you would to scan a black and white film negative, then it should all work. The better the scanner, the better the resolution you'll have. Depending on the microfiche size (ours at work are fairly small), maybe even a dedicated (film) negative scanner would work.