On 10/4/16 8:02 AM, Shaun Halstead wrote:
>> I'd like to work to-wards scanning all of the library into a system. >> Anybody know anything about fiche scanners. > > > This is exactly what my company does (and my previous, now defunct, > employer as well). I have dedicated microfiche and microfilm scanners. > The problem I ran into when trying to scan my DEC microfiche collection was > that the fiche themselves were of very poor quality. Badly scratched and > scuffed, and poor quality duplicates. > > Jim mentioned that dedicated microfilm scanners are expensive. He's not > kidding. Used machines tend to start around $5k USD for a low end, heavily > used scanner. New machines are generally $30k at the lowest end. Flatbed > photographic film scanners are much cheaper, but also slower. However, > with some scripting and tools like the ImageMagick library, you can scan an > entire fiche in one pass, then slice up the image into individual pages > accordingly. > many people have jousted at this particular windmill this is a huge time-consuming project I have literally thousands of sheets of DEC fiche from multiple sources scanning at that kind of volume doesn't scale. you have to clean an qc every sheet even with a production scanner. It took me most of a day to do the little bit of xxdp fiche a couple of weeks ago on a manual positioning Canon microfilm/microfiche scanner at CHM I just bought another high-end scanner, which isn't running yet. It uses glass carriers for each sheet and I have about 6 carriers. I was hoping it could handle IBM punched-card sized fiche, but I've not been able to find a carrier that big. I have a rather large backlog of those as well.
