Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:51:26 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry. Message-ID: <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> References: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:15:06PM -0800, Vizion wrote: > 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 ... . > > > > thanks for any insights, > > > > gary > > Its a long time since I have handled microfiche but my guess is you will need > to mount your camera onto a microfiche reader or a microscope. The > resolution of a microfiche image is really high - far higher than the camera > you are using so I think you may need something to enlarge the image for you > to photograph. > > my two pennorth > > david > Microscope; that never cross my mind. I think my pal took stuff to the main library one night and tried capturing the data from the reader. Not very successful; I don't know the details. (We are around 1200 miles apart.) Any ballpark SWAG what power lens might work here? I only touched m'fiche one time ever, so have no idea. Money is an issue since there are 400+ pages. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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