11 Nov
2004
11 Nov
'04
2:50 a.m.
On 11 Nov 2004 05:26:53 -0500, james <james(a)jdfogg.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 21:57, Fred Cisin wrote:
HP makes a see-through scanner which can be put on top of whatever you
want to scan.
Convenient for items which are hard to scan with normal flatbed scanners,
and not too expensive.
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-bv
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, John Allain wrote:
> I have the paper manual here somewhere. It's bound (soft) so
> may be a pain to scan. It's about time for someone to make an
> "open book scanner", one with a wedge of glass that you can
> drop the book onto. I don't want this binding opened 180? flat.
Xerox and others make photocopiers for this. The glass extends all the
way to the side of the machine and you hang the book on the side. Maybe
someone makes a scanner like this. Check with a very large library or
university library.