DOES ANYONE READ OLD POSTS HERE??????
>> 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
