28 Mar
2018
28 Mar
'18
12:37 p.m.
>> DOES ANYONE READ OLD POSTS HERE??????
>
> Some of us...
>> Do the math. Scanning all of that fiche is man-centuries of work with all but the
most expensive equipment.
>
> Quite. Maybe someday 9600 dpi scan heads will be cheap, but not soon
> enough for most of us here today to care.
We are like engineers or something. I think there is open source software
for rebuilding images from shredded documents.Slide projector lens, LED
array and diffuser and a digital camera. Stepper motors to move the thing
around and load next fiche?
Let the robot do it?
source). I
doubt I have anything unique, but it's possible a handful
of items are not easily found.
For myself, it would be an enormous accomplishment just to make an
index of the titles. At least it fits in a couple of shoeboxes and
takes up less room than paper. The manual fiche reader itself is
much larger than my pile of fiche, so there's that.
-ethan