Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:05:12 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Waaaaay OT, sorry. Message-ID: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org>
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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 ... . thanks for any insights, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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