2018-02-23 15:11 GMT+01:00 Bob Eager <r...@tavi.co.uk>: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:05:06 -0500 > "Tim Stark" <fsword...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I recently noticed that you recently talked about DIY scanning for > > documents. Does anyone have DIY techniques about microfiche > > scanning? > > I'd love to know. At the moment I have a large microfiche reader which > is taking up far too much space. Got that from eBay. >
I am also interested in this topic. I was recently given a huge number of microfiche by a nice gentleman. Thanks Mike! DEC Tech manuals, Diag listings, IPBs etc etc. In order 5000-10000 fiches in three blue steel boxes. I had an idea of making a catalogue of available fiches. I started of taking a picture of them just for the purpose of be able to write down the information later on (Just the tech manuals are approx 1300 fiches: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8cgznonlixavlsx/AABQI2-sQuxcqBO1dHcAFMUga?dl=0). Then this information can be shared and those documents that are not available can be scanned at a later stage. I simply don't see any point in scanning them all (if I had a scanner that is) since many documents are already online. But the sheer number of fiche already tell me this is not feasible to do this manually. I need some kind of automatic method of doing this. I was thinking some kind of pipeline of steps that takes the image and converts it to a database entry or spreadsheet row. Identify fiche outline, Straighten it up. Identify text locations. Do OCR. Identify type of text based on text contents etc. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c_8TFNDkPd8poigdbuJiohDod5Z08ifpD9lqXNRPMeA I have recognized a couple of different fonts used and the font size varies slightly. The positions are relatively fixed. The position of the date and Copyright year and format varies a bit though. Anyone did something similar? Ideas? Useful software to use? /Mattis > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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