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/
Just to acknowledge...no, sorry. My scanner is not large enough for that. When I needed scans of that size I went to a print / copy shop in my hometown that had one. Pricy though Bill On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:22 AM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> 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/
I typically scan items like that in parts with a little overlap on each scan, then stitch them together in GIMP in an oversize image format. Jeff Salzman On Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 12:21 AM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> 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/
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/
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.
Thanks everyone for their replies. It looks like System Source may have a scanner that will do the job, and I'll be working with Bob Roswell on the project. Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 8:06 AM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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.
Thanks everyone for their replies. It looks like System Source may have a scanner that will do the job, and I'll be working with Bob Roswell on the project.
Great! Glad to hear that you found a source for your needs.
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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