[Simh] best way to scan 172 column fanfold 80s printout?

[Davis Johnson]

I think what you need is a wide carriage printer with the typical feed 
up through a slot in the bottom, and a camera.

The only working function needed from the printer is form feed. 
Photograph the page that is hanging below the printer, form feed and repeat.

Anybody here ought to be able to handle the programming to automate this 
process.

You would need to manually photograph the first page.

The camera would need good depth of field.


On 02/11/2018 01:17 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 2/11/18 10:11 AM, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
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>> which is why I wondered what people thought of turning an old DEC teletype or printer into a scanner, by fixing a camera
>> to it
> sounds like a bigger version of the Thunderscan
> https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Thunderscan.txt
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