I finally found a tutorial and software to combine smaller scans of
large documents into a single mosaic of the larger sheet.
<http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml> gives a nice
tutorial of how to run hugin panorama tools to generate the mosaic.
You must change some parameters from the default and this tutorial
explains which of the many parameters you must change.
Here are some results I got from using this technique:
<http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/tmp/calcomp-schematic.png>
<http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/tmp/aesthedes-keyboard.png>
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