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Offline cheshirecat

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reading micro fiche
« on: Sunday 18 July 04 20:16 BST (UK) »
Is it possible to read a micro fiche by scanning it on a 1200 PC scanner and enlarging it on the computer - or is the resolution just too high? Has anyone tried it?
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Offline PaulineJ

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Re: reading micro fiche
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 July 04 20:33 BST (UK) »

We tried scanning microfiche on a 3200 dpi scanner, Images (line drawings) can out brilliantly, but the rest of it (text in columns) was unreadable.

I think because microfiche is relatively thick, there was too much light leaking around it.

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