Re: Softalk Magazine

[Jerry <SNIPawanderin@yahoSNIPo.ca>]

rob wrote:

> Has anyone scanned most or all of the Softalk magzines into PDF format
> ? Softalk wass such a great Apple II resource which shouldn't be
> forgotten.
> 
> Right now I'm also trying to scan my (very) fragile copy of The C.I.A.
> Does anyone know an effective way to scan small and fragile
> publications with out damaging them ? I'm using a flatbed at the
> moment but I'm reluctant to bend the pages too much.

I use a home-built cradle for books so the books lays open about 30 degrees
from flat.  Its face is painted flat-black so that pages are always
surrounded by black.  Then, using a digital camera and a piece of glass to
press the pages flat, I can scan a couple hundred pages in half an hour. 
It's the cleaning-up the images part (deskew, normalization, trimming junk
out) that I have not fully automated yet.  I have a couple of interesting
Apple II books I will turn into PDFs at some point, but I tend to start too
many projects and not finish enough of them. :(  OTOH, it's fun. :)

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--  Jerry