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Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Microfilm Scanners
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:35:13 EST

Machines do exist that scan microfilm as .tiff files. I saw one at the
National Postmark Museum in some little town in Ohio when I was doing a news
story about the Postmark Museum. Also, if anyone has ever visited the BLM
website, they have 3 million land patents from 1830 on down available for
download as .tiff files, and they must have done it with a machine from
microfilm. They probably even have a machine to load that machine! (BTW it's
a great site for research.)
However, I think transcribing by hand is probably just as fast, because of the
tiny type and poor quality of Pierce. But that machine would be perfect,
combined with OCR, for Phoenix, which is printed with much larger and more
legible type, if we ever decide to do that book.

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