21 May
2012
21 May
'12
11:27 a.m.
get a tripod and a camera and take photos then right some program that
process's through them all and blam u got a way to archive ur tapes
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 05/21/2012 02:04 PM, John Foust wrote:
This is all interesting, but seems like a solution in search of a
problem. Is it really the case that nobody can find a good optical
(i.e., low tape wear) tape reader? Or card reader?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
If you
were
scanning a short stack of cards, it wasn't so bad, but a 3 foot deck?
You'd spend a lot of time just getting the cards in and out of the
scanner.
Well, there are many scanners that can auto-feed a half-inch-tall pile.
As for paper tape, what about the super-duper overkill of recognizing
a video stream from a web cam? All you'd need is a jig to slowly
pull the tape past the fixed camera.