Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:37:26 -0500 From: Sean <rsh.lists@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry. Message-ID: <438F0AA6.9010501@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200511290745.47267.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> References: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> <3cf08c810511290505s3a119ac6h1c99fc12a6ad9571@mail.gmail.com> <200511290745.47267.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
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Vizion wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 05:05, the author virgil huston contributed to >>>> >>>> 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 ... . >> Just check some local libraries, many of them at least at one time had readers with printers already in place.
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