Photographing fiche (Was: DEC RD53 Manual

Automation is not out of the question for home brew I have made a 5 axix cnc, and retrofitted a lathe both use EMC2 software One thought is a hacked scanner, with the motor moving the fiche carriage instead but its not simple to have an easy focusing on that We could overlap scan sensors to cover the whole width and then calibrate out sensor positions and merge the resultant images, but that involves getting a pile of donor hardware and loads of effort as well. but the 2-3 k cost for simple and 10k for automatic are out of the question Catalogue the fiche and only scan on demand is my intended method. Probably helps to induce the odd donation too, if its an easy download one just sees costs and effort for ones labour Dave Caroline