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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: digitizing microfische - how?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.151733.20348@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 15:17:33 GMT
References: <91152.035047ATDYW@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
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In article <91152.035047ATDYW@ASUACAD.BITNET>, ATDYW@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
|> Does anyone out there know of a way to digitize microfische? I'm aware of
|> ways to dump computer output to fische, but what about the other direction?
|> Any help will be apreciated.

Someone here had the same question, but never brought in a test fiche
for us to try out.

It seems to me that a moderately high-resolution flatbed scanner should
do the trick.  Even a good 400dpi greyscale/color scanner should be
able to produce a large enough picture to be usable.

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