14 Apr
2009
14 Apr
'09
5:11 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
...
Yes, there are step and repeat scanners made by
companies like Canon
and Mekel. They are expensive. I have a first generation model Mekel
that I paid over 10 thousand dollars for (which is a fraction of its
new price). DEC used very small frames which require a lot of fiddling
to get the parameters set correctly. Scanning services exist, but the
test scans I got from them were not well aligned.
This might be way off base since I don't know the particulars, but is it
not possible to overscan each page and then crop after it is in digital
form? Why spend a long time fiddling trying to center and align each
page optically?
Also, I'd be willing to kick into a fund to hire a kid to sit and do the
fiddly stuff, and I bet others would too. There is no reason for you to
spend your time doing monkey work, Al. Sitting around listening to
music doing a non-taxing work for $10/hr would be a dream job, it seems,
for a typical 14 year old.