Preserving old literature

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Nov 23 18:25:12 2001

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Doug Coward wrote:

>
> Matt London <classiccmp_at_knm.yi.org> wrote:
> > I've found that hanging one edge of the magazine over the side of the
> > scanner works - you have to put the scanner on something thin and tall, so
> > the whole side of the magazine droops down - the only problem then is the
> > width of the plastic edges of the scanner surface/sides of scanner
>
> I once disassembled my scanner to investigate the
> possibility of removing the entire "plastic edges
> of the scanner" all the way to the edge of the
> scan area.(Hoping to be able to scan old books
> only open to a 90 degree angle.)
> It looked like a good idea because the outside
> track is inside the scan area. Unfortunately
> after I got the scanner apart, I discovered that
> the xenon(or whatever) tube not only does not light
> all the way to it's end, but it also has an
> electrode at the end. It just sticks out too far
> and has to extend past the edge of the scan area
> in order to illuminate the whole area.
> Oh well.
>
> On a similar note:
> I just found this - "Building a megapixel digital
> camera from a flatbed scanner"
> http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html
>
> Regards,
> --Doug
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There used to be a scanner - I have long since forgotten the name - that
had a small `camera' installed on a curved boom above a flat base. A
couple of lights also, of course. I'd imagine that such a unit would be
capable of scanning magazine pages with out ruining the magazine. I
also imagine that it was bog slow and low resolution!

                                                 - don

> Doug Coward
> _at_ home in Poulsbo, WA
>
> Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center
> http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog
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>
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