Converting Microfiche Into PDF format

[Vincent]

Anyone here have the savvy to know how, (or if), it can be done? Any advice would be appreciated.

[smegbrains]

If you can scan it into a PC, a program called CutePDF will do the conversion to PDF. You install it, and it creates a printer. Send it to that "printer" and it'll offer up a dialog box to save as a PDF file

Nice n easy.

[Vincent]

[smegbrains]

[Vincent]

It's a bike parts microfiche I've bought (as no parts manuals seem to be available), for an RD80LC. I've thought about one of those companies but they're used to doing hundreds at a time, not sure how much it would be to just have one done, or even if they would. Only other option is to pick up a cheap used fiche reader but they're bloomin bulky things to have around just to read one fiche.

[smegbrains]

One of the not-for-profit ones may do it for you quite happily if you call them up and flirt a bit.

There's also the library. My local one still has a microfiche reader.

[Vincent]

[Vincent]

This is the best looking pl;ace I've found online, bet it's still expensive to get one done tho:-

https://www.microstat.co.uk/microfilm.html

I was dead right, they want £175 to do one microfiche, (minimum order). I can get up to 700 images done for that.

[Vincent]

Might have answered my own question here, just found this on another forum;-

"I have had great results using a 4000dpi negative scanner and then cleaning up the images in Graphic Converter.
The quality of the fiche is the limiting factor.
If it has been used for 20 years in a bike shop then more work has to be done to fix it."

Anyone got a 4000dpi neg scanner and knows how to use Graphic Converter?

[Kickstart]

Hi

I had some done a few years back. Certainly wasn't cheap (£190 for 14 fiche) and not good enough quality to turn into a pdf (scanned as jpg and tif).

I have tried a few desktop scanners with no real success. Not sure you can get an affordable slide / negative scanner. Think part of the problem with a desktop scanner is getting a way of mounting the slide in a decent position.

I have loads of fiche I want to scan, but still trying to find an affordable way.

All the best

Keith
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[Vincent]

[Kickstart]

Hi

I did find a scanner that would do the job, but they seemed to go for about £500. Given the hundreds of fiche I have floating round it gets tempting.

All the best

Keith
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