Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:45:46 -0800 From: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: virgil huston <virgil.huston@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry. Message-ID: <200511290745.47267.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3cf08c810511290505s3a119ac6h1c99fc12a6ad9571@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> <3cf08c810511290505s3a119ac6h1c99fc12a6ad9571@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 05:05, the author virgil huston contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry.: >> > 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 have >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. That is unlikely to work because the fiche resolution is so high - and would require a scanner with an equivalently high resolution. A camera on a standard lab microscope is probably the best way to go if you want to digitize the result. david > >Virgil > >> > > thanks for any insights, >> > > >> > > gary > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- 40 yrs navigating and computing in blue waters. English Owner & Captain of British Registered 60' bluewater Ketch S/V Taurus. Currently in San Diego, CA. Sailing bound for Europe via Panama Canal after completing engineroom refit.
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