Microfiche scanning

[John Foust]

At 05:14 PM 4/21/2005, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>I won't argue with that.  Another thing that occurs to me is that one
>could presumably build something like a fiche viewer over the scanner
>glass; somthing to hold the fiche against a lens and project a
>magnified image onto the scanner glass.  I assume that, in essence, is
>how Al's big fiche scanner works.

What, no one here has ever tried to bolt a scanner to the
frosted glass face of an ordinary fiche viewer?  You'd want to trick
it into not using its own lamp, but that's been done before with
the guy who turned a scanner into a high-res camera.

- John