Scanning Microfilm

Geoff Cannon (mailto:geoff.cannon@SHERIDANC.ON.CA)
Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:32:14 -0400

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Date:         Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:32:14 -0400
From: Geoff Cannon <mailto:geoff.cannon@SHERIDANC.ON.CA>
Subject:      Scanning Microfilm
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

As part of an ongoing project to digitize historic documents in Halton
County we have come to the point where we would like to take our historic
newspapers on microfilm and make them available on our Web site. We would
like to buy equipment and do it in house rather than out source the project.
Here are my questions:

1. Is 2000 dpi uninterpolated adequate for scanning microfilm?

2. Is there a scanner that can handle 100ft roll of microfilm without being "customized"?

3. I have just seen a brochure for a Microtek ScanMaker 35t plus that will do 1950 dpi uninterpolated. Any comments about their products.

Geoffrey Cannon mailto:geoff.cannon@sheridanc.on.ca Information Services Librarian Halton Hills Public Library http://www.hhpl.on.ca