21 Apr
2005
21 Apr
'05
5:03 a.m.
Am I right in thinking that a home flatbed scanner has
absolutely no
hope of providing the resolution needed to scan microfiche?
We've got a *lot* of DEC documentation arrived on fiche (208 pages per
fiche, estimated 25000 sheets) and scanning some of the more useful bits
would be nice. So far the cost from commercial companies has either been
too high or the quality has been far too low to actually be useful :-(
My low-tech, low cost solution to this problem was to buy a fiche printer,
print the fiche on paper, then scan that. The quality is sort of barely
adequate.
Unfortunately, it is also very much a "low volume" solution, just barely
adequate for a manual or two. (My printer requires you to manually align
each page.) 25000 sheets calls for something more sophisticated.
Vince