Microfiche scanning

[Kevin Handy]

Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, vrs wrote:
>
>> My low-tech, low cost solution to this problem was to buy a fiche 
>> printer,
>> print the fiche on paper, then scan that.  The quality is sort of barely
>> adequate.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it is also very much a "low volume" solution, just barely
>> adequate for a manual or two.  (My printer requires you to manually 
>> align
>> each page.)  25000 sheets calls for something more sophisticated.
>
>
> Maybe get a little more systematic? Is there any rhyme or reason
> to the fiche, eg. the first images are title/doc
> ID/table-of-contents pages? If so, tediously capture those, then
> you'll know what's worth bothering with and what's not.
>
Split the task up, maybe by stealing some software from DP
http://www.pgdp.net/ to start with.

1. One person scans a set of fiche, and put them up on a site somewhere.
2. Someone takes a fiche, and breaks it into page images.

<for text versions>
3. Someone OCR's the images.
4. Run through a couple of rounds of proofing
5. Someone massages the individual pages into a complete manual.

<for raw-pdf version>
3. Someone merges all the pages for one document into a pdf.