Micro Fiche Library.

[Jörg Hoppe]

Hi,

you surely found it on the web already, but if not:
Two years ago I build an own scanning rig and scanned 50000+ pages of 
XXDP listings.
The problem of enhancing very bad fiches is also addressed with an 
expensive "Filter Chain".

http://retrocmp.com/projects/scanning-micro-fiches

Joerg

Am 04.10.2016 um 06:49 schrieb Rod Smallwood:
> Hi All
>
>         I have just had a huge DEC Miro Fiche library  given to me.
>
> It has the portable (weighs a ton) reader with it.
>
> On trying it out.  I found the results were awful.
> A good clean of the light path and removal of some disintegrating foam 
> improved things no end.
> That left two issues:
>
>      1.    The reader was for x 42 but the fiches are  x52.
>
>      2.    The plastic fiche holder consisting of two sheets of stiff 
> and clear plastic connected together at one end is scratched to hell.
>
> I'd like to work to-wards scanning all of the library into a system.
> Anybody know anything about fiche scanners.
>
> Rod
>