29 Jul
2000
29 Jul
'00
10:36 a.m.
Tim wrote:
I was thinking (I could be wrong) that a scanner could
take in the
whole 4" x 5" microfilm sheet at once, and then I could write some
software that would parse the whole-sheet image into frames, do some
automatic cleanup on each individual frame, and compress. Am I
walking down the wrong path?
As I indicated in a previous posting, you'd need a drum scanner with
at least 15000 DPI resolution to do it that way. I think it's the
right way to do it, but the only suitable drum scanners I've seen cost
upwards of $50K.