From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 13:05:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8356B16A41F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:05:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from virgil.huston@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D5D43D5D for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:05:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from virgil.huston@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so2466676wri for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:05:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ifr8LTz+v5gi1ndmqwPQxxytz504A9PCQgHKBmVjVjTC9diEZaRd8MITBVWMHdQOJ8/hQUx6mB3obu3UCp14/xUDGE/029Uh/s5TmFAAZEHEQHm2uy3hHt2O0ZbvJzWXoX49U2UNbcb9xKUhLM5AOIMkFGicdVukMZ05OMj9osQ= Received: by 10.54.147.1 with SMTP id u1mr470609wrd; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:05:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.79.16 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:05:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3cf08c810511290505s3a119ac6h1c99fc12a6ad9571@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:05:26 -0500 From: virgil huston To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:05:28 -0000 > > > 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 hav= e 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. Virgil > > > > > thanks for any insights, > > > > > > gary >