On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:22:26 -0600, Andreas F. Geissbuehler wrote (to Wheeler's, copy went to list...): >I believe you once posted / answered a post about digitizing old >hardcopy manuals. I have some 30 volumes 1980..1995 vintage, >about 8'000 B&W pages to convert to PDF.
THANKS TO ALL for your advice, on and off-list. I learned it ain't an easy trip down to the local Copy Service. Over time many pages are/were fused together, have tears, careful paper handling is required! In the end I decided to buy a Canon DUPLEX Auto Feed Scanner, model DR-2080C. and found a new one on eBay for $350. I figure it will convert 80% of the pages at 20 sheets/min equal 40 front + back images/min. Yes, definitly, once its end of life has been reached I will ask my client to deposit/donate this mighty proprietary software to "computer history". Andreas F. Geissbuehler AFG Consultants Inc. http://www.afgc-inc.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
