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Subject: Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry.
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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.