Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

[ethan at 757.org]

>>> DOES ANYONE READ OLD POSTS HERE??????
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 	>> 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
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: Ethan O'Toole