scanning microfiche

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 6 10:08:00 2003

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> One solution I've heard, is to get a microfiche printer and get
> printouts, then to scan them into electronic format. Please, not, I'm
> NOT recommending this idea, and don't consider it a good one, but it
> would work for very low volume, and a lot of Libraries at least used to
> have Microfiche printers that you could take your fiche in and get
> printouts on.

I have such a fiche reader. It has a laser printer built into it. Very
cool. Norm can bring the fiche over, we can print them with this device,
and then they could be OCR'd using a sheet-fed scanner.


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