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 -- 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
