Seek Fiche to PDF

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Seek Fiche to PDF

Date:Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:41:58 +0100


I am looking for better options to convert microfiche to PDF computer files.
I have 18 microfiche of 5x15 images (actually either 12 r 14 across), or less
than 1,500 images, perhaps as few as 11,00.  THey are tiny handwriting in
fountain pen, some photoreduced.  I have gotten estimates of ten to fifteen
cents per image but I keep running into a five hundred dollar set up fee.

These are my school notes from 1970 to 1990.


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Subject:

Re: Seek Fiche to PDF

Date:Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:01:55 +0100


BTW, it almost seems it would be cheaper to print the fiche on paper
and then scan them. THis seems absurd.



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   [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
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Message-ID:<isw-AF8839.10203627012010@[216.168.3.50]>
Subject:

Re: Seek Fiche to PDF

Date:Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:20:36 +0100

In article <hjpms6$mcm$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

> I am looking for better options to convert microfiche to PDF computer files.
> I have 18 microfiche of 5x15 images (actually either 12 r 14 across), or less
> than 1,500 images, perhaps as few as 11,00.

You might get decent results from a standard scanner that could do 
transparencies (slides) at around 4800 dpi. You'd have to rig some way 
to get the 'fiche in the proper place to be scanned, but even if that 
involved modifying the slide carrier, the total cost would be under $150 
or so and you'd get a nice scanner into the bargain.

Isaac

Message-ID:<hjshep$2td$2@news.eternal-september.org>
Subject:

Re: Seek Fiche to PDF

Date:Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:27:50 +0100


I think that some flatbed scanners that can scan film could do it.  I'd 
look at an Epson 4990 or a "V-series" scanner.


vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> I am looking for better options to convert microfiche to PDF computer files.
> I have 18 microfiche of 5x15 images (actually either 12 r 14 across), or less
> than 1,500 images, perhaps as few as 11,00.  THey are tiny handwriting in
> fountain pen, some photoreduced.  I have gotten estimates of ten to fifteen
> cents per image but I keep running into a five hundred dollar set up fee.
> 
> These are my school notes from 1970 to 1990.
> 
> 
> 				    - = -
>  Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
>    http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm  http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 
>   ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed.}---
>    [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
>  [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]
> 
> 
>