Can anybody recommend a suitable scanner for scanning microfiche? the eventual aim is to convert fiche for easy viewing and access on a PC. I see Canon do an MS300 Microfilm/fiche scanner, but will this do the business with typical "Parish Register" type microfiche? If it will produce reasonably good results does anyone have an idea of its cost?
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Thread: Scanning Microfiche
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01-09-2006, 5:52 PM #1Stu HGuest
Scanning Microfiche
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01-09-2006, 7:04 PM #2
If you google for the MS300, you will see that it is claimed to be the best one for this type of work. At a cost of $6,452.00
NeilNeil
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01-09-2006, 7:39 PM #3
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Sorry I haven't got an answer, I'm just grumbling.
If a 3200 dpi (optical) counts as a "typical" consumer scanner, it doesn't deliver the goods!
Next, I'm going to experiment with using the digital camera.
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01-09-2006, 9:31 PM #4GeoffersGuestOriginally Posted by Peter Goodey
Geoffers
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01-09-2006, 10:04 PM #5Stu HGuest
using a digital camera
Originally Posted by Geoffers
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01-09-2006, 10:39 PM #6
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Taking pictures directly from the screen of a fiche viewer is pretty successful providing you know how to use the camera. I find it's faster than scribbling notes and circumvents problems with my illegible handwriting.
My next experiment (and what I meant to say in my earlier message) is photographing the fiche itself. As soon as I can lay my hands on some glass slide mounts, I'll be having a go.
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01-09-2006, 10:46 PM #7Rod NeepGuest
Allow me to tell you the very best way to get results, without a lot of expensive equipment.
Find access to a fiche printer. Print to A4 paper
Scan the print on your bog standard home flatbed scanner.
The end result is as perfect as it can get, and is better than expensive microfiche scanners.
Rod
PS. it is possible to purchase old Canon fiche printers for about 200.00 or less. (But they are big lumps)
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02-09-2006, 3:21 PM #8GeoffersGuestOriginally Posted by Stu H
Geoffers
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12-05-2008, 2:15 PM #9Alick LaversGuest
Help please? As an OPC, I am finding that searching fiches with my old microfiche reader is very tiring work.
I have just found this thread and I am full of hope... Microfiche printer, you say - does it print from a microfiche film (ie, some 60 sheets) or from a microfiche reader (ie, only a part of a sheet)?
Who would have such an item? Devon Records Office, perhaps? Or Devon Family History Society? Or even the local library?
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12-05-2008, 5:41 PM #10Guy EtchellsGuest
If you wish to photograph microfiche using a microfiche viewer the best way is to remove the screen of the viewer and project the image onto a white wall/door/screen and photograph that.
This avoids the pattern made by the microfiche bulb.
Cheers
Guy
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