Well Kerry if you do find out costs, I'm interested to know what they charge for these whiz bang devices. Can't be cheap with all those features, but very nice! Dawn -----Original Message----- From: Kerry [mailto:kerryb@austarnet.com.au] Sent: Friday, 6 January 2006 4:02 PM To: AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HC] Off Topic - 35mm Newspaper reader Hi Brian This site http://www.microfilm.net.au/equipment.shtml?st200 gives all the latest on different viewers, as I am interested in a new one but a little hesitant to email this group to find out the cost. Kerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Rhynehart To: AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [HC] Off Topic - 35mm Newspaper reader Denise, Jenny and interested others, I have been watching this thread unravel for a while but have not said anything yet because I was still experimenting. I am still experimenting but the story goes:- The new fiche/film readers at the National Library are connected to either a printer or a scanner. From the scanner the image can be printed or saved as jpeg, bmp, tif or pdf. I have done the trick of trying to copy and print small parts of a half page article then take home 17 or 18 A4 pages to read a small section in the middle and type into a word document. I next tried the scanner and emailed the results to myself - cheaper, less copied pages but the typing still remained and I waited ages for a mail download. Next I got a USB memory drive - this certainly made getting the scanned image home but still the typing. [I go all the way back to the typing of telegrams etc. in the post office in the early sixties, through various computers starting with ones where I would have been writing this in single line format (EDLIN or similar earlier editors) and by now looking like running out of memory. I still hate typing long documents and the arthritis can be a bitch] . The next project involved playing with some OCR programmes, I am still doing this, the best yet can only get about 20%, the programmes I have tried require black & white images to work best, the best image of a scanned document is greyscale. Therefore I was not really ready to say anything yet as the experimentation goes on with many interruptions (like now, have to pick up one of the kids (24 and no car) in a few minutes) but I am ever hopeful. If I can get it to work then long articles can be scanned in sections and converted to a document type format that does not require typing the whole thing. Brian Rhynehart. ----- Original Message ----- > > > And while we're on the subject, has anyone worked out a way to > > successfully digitise newspaper film? > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.14.13/221 - Release Date: 4/01/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.0.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.13/221 - Release Date: 4/01/2006

Sure will do Dawn, such a variety don't know where to start, probably at the cheapest:-) K ----- Original Message ----- From: Dawn Webb To: AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:23 PM Subject: RE: [HC] Off Topic - 35mm Newspaper reader Well Kerry if you do find out costs, I'm interested to know what they charge for these whiz bang devices. Can't be cheap with all those features, but very nice! Dawn -----Original Message----- From: Kerry [mailto:kerryb@austarnet.com.au] Sent: Friday, 6 January 2006 4:02 PM To: AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HC] Off Topic - 35mm Newspaper reader Hi Brian This site http://www.microfilm.net.au/equipment.shtml?st200 gives all the latest on different viewers, as I am interested in a new one but a little hesitant to email this group to find out the cost. Kerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Rhynehart To: AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [HC] Off Topic - 35mm Newspaper reader Denise, Jenny and interested others, I have been watching this thread unravel for a while but have not said anything yet because I was still experimenting. I am still experimenting but the story goes:- The new fiche/film readers at the National Library are connected to either a printer or a scanner. From the scanner the image can be printed or saved as jpeg, bmp, tif or pdf. I have done the trick of trying to copy and print small parts of a half page article then take home 17 or 18 A4 pages to read a small section in the middle and type into a word document. I next tried the scanner and emailed the results to myself - cheaper, less copied pages but the typing still remained and I waited ages for a mail download. Next I got a USB memory drive - this certainly made getting the scanned image home but still the typing. [I go all the way back to the typing of telegrams etc. in the post office in the early sixties, through various computers starting with ones where I would have been writing this in single line format (EDLIN or similar earlier editors) and by now looking like running out of memory. I still hate typing long documents and the arthritis can be a bitch] . The next project involved playing with some OCR programmes, I am still doing this, the best yet can only get about 20%, the programmes I have tried require black & white images to work best, the best image of a scanned document is greyscale. Therefore I was not really ready to say anything yet as the experimentation goes on with many interruptions (like now, have to pick up one of the kids (24 and no car) in a few minutes) but I am ever hopeful. If I can get it to work then long articles can be scanned in sections and converted to a document type format that does not require typing the whole thing. Brian Rhynehart. ----- Original Message ----- > > > And while we're on the subject, has anyone worked out a way to > > successfully digitise newspaper film? > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.14.13/221 - Release Date: 4/01/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.0.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.13/221 - Release Date: 4/01/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.14.13/221 - Release Date: 4/01/2006