5 Jul
2011
5 Jul
'11
1:23 p.m.
Dave Caroline [dave.thearchivist at gmail.com] wrote:
When you see ebay item 160562701815 from down under
it
becomes obvious what Im trying to do but at a sensible cost
I've spent a few days idly wandering the web looking at various
scanners. No doubt these will (one day) be dirt cheap [1] but right
now a decent solution looks like it is in the $10K-$15K ball park.
(That's for a ScanPro 2000, but there are various similar systems
for about the same price).
That ScanPro boasts a capture time of ~one second for a frame. It
doesn't explicitly say that you can load a fiche, hit a button and
come back later to find a complete PDF, so I assume that you can't.
That would mean maybe 10-15 minutes to manually scan a full fiche.
Probably reasonable for the occasional manual; probably not feasible
for the amount of fiche I have on hand.
There must be fully automated systems around (since the scanning
services
offer quick turnaround times) but I assume that they cost somewhat more.
I suppose 10-20 years ago a fiche reader would have been too expensive
for a home user and yet today you can get one quite cheaply on that
auction site, so there's always hope. Anyone know what today's
top-of-the-line automated scanner might be so I can keep my eyes open
:-)
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org