Please keep us informed Brian, there has to be a better way than sitting typing all the time Thank you Denise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Rhynehart" <brianr@cyberone.com.au> 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? >>