Hi all,

I am investigating the technology that some agencies may have already
implemented and that is have a device (standalone or not) that can scan either
all types of microfilm or just fiche.

We have a department that has years of fiche and are looking at other ways to be
able to scan it and eventually view it through other programs/devices.

My questions are:

1.  What type of equipment is it?

     a.  standalone
     b.  connects to a reader/printer
     c.  connects to a pc

2.  How much is it?

3.  Is software to run it extra?

4.  Can the images be migrated immediately to another device like cd-rom writer?
or into an imaging system?

 Any other ideas or suggestions I haven't considered?

Additional information:  We already have an imaging system between several
departments, and only need a device possibly to connect to our existing pc to do
the scanning into a *.tif file format and then we can import those images and
index into our existing system.  That would probably be ideal.

Please contact me directly if you need to.

Susan Wolak
City of Longmont, CO
Web Administrator
303-774-4391
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City Website: http://www.ci.longmont.co.us/