Lars Aronsson wrote: > I have an 1909 out-of-copyright book from the library. It has a > fold-out map that is bound with the book, so I can't take it out. > How do I hold the map flat to get a good photo? > > My current photos are not my proudest moment: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LA2-stridfin-overviewmap-left.jpg > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LA2-stridfin-overviewmap-right.jpg
I have a lot of material like this, and even when it's removed from the book and flattened it still does not scan properly. For this map http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/index.php?page=British+Isles I ended up scanning each section and then tidying things up with paintshoppro. ( I still need to load the larger versions that go with each page of that - 4Gb! ) I think the only way to get truly flat images is via a rotary scanner which is obviously out of the question with a book :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
