Has there been good experience with mounting a DSLR or other camera on a tripod aimed down at the paperwork, good lighting and then use digital photos of it? Or do the details get lost / focus issues in the extremities? I had a friend Brother duplex scanner (2880? 2800?) recently and chugged through 4 large boxes of scuba diving magazines, then some Apple II stuff. Sending it all to archive.org. Unfortunately that scanner wasn't large enough to do even wide cover magazines, but it chugged through hundreds of pounds of magazines without issue. I was using 4 computers at time round robin and talking to it over the network so they could chomp on the OCR and make the PDFs. When I was looking at scanning the Yamaha C1 large schematic, I looked around at commercial shops and I think at the time Staples had the cheapest blueprint scanning out there. But it sounds like your pages aren't quite that large. Hmmm what if you set a high quality camera cellphone (iphone 12 or something) on panorama mode and made a jig where you can slide it down a page? - Ethan On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a pile of schematics and logic diagrams to be scanned, measuring 17" by up to 36" long, double-sided. Does anyone around PA, MD, VA, OH, NY, NJ have a scanner that could handle it? I'm willing to do the manual labor part, just need access to the scanner.
These are training materials from the SAGE Air Defense system, and are the only ones known to exist in the wild.
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/