Micro Fiche Library.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Rod Smallwood < rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote: This is not at all unusual. I do have a stock of microfilm reader lenses, if we can figure out who actually built the reader and which lens it takes. Is there a name or model on the lens or reader (other than DEC)? Thin plastic is really unusual here because of the tendency to melt under the heat of the lamp. This is exactly what my company does (and my previous, now defunct, employer as well). I have dedicated microfiche and microfilm scanners. The problem I ran into when trying to scan my DEC microfiche collection was that the fiche themselves were of very poor quality. Badly scratched and scuffed, and poor quality duplicates. Jim mentioned that dedicated microfilm scanners are expensive. He's not kidding. Used machines tend to start around $5k USD for a low end, heavily used scanner. New machines are generally $30k at the lowest end. Flatbed photographic film scanners are much cheaper, but also slower. However, with some scripting and tools like the ImageMagick library, you can scan an entire fiche in one pass, then slice up the image into individual pages accordingly. --Shaun Halstead MSI Tech Services, LLC