How do you scan them? I have a flatbed, but I imagine it would be a tedious process with not great results. I also have a bunch of old PC Accelerator mags in my bookcase. That was a funny magazine.
You need an ADF scanner with a CCD sensor. Try to avoid scanners with CIS sensors as they can produce scanning artifacts. I’ve used Kodak ADF scanner in the past just fine but the standard is the Fujitsu Fi series of ADF scanners. You can debind a number of ways but the method I use is a bookbinder that heats up the spine. Then pull the cover off, pull pages out in 10 page chunks or so, then pull pages apart again from the 10 page chunks.
If you want to scan non-destructively the only method is flatbed then or maybe a camera on a mount but that will almost always produce inferior captures.
Pretty much what I suspected. Thanks. My flatbed is a canoscan 9800 (or 9500?). I also have a Fujitsu ADF scanner. Have been looking at building a camera-based scanner for some old textured photos I’ve been trying to scan.
I love reading old mags, I also like scanning them. Its not a cheap or easy hobby by any means.
what do you do with the scanned ones, put them online perchance?
Yea I put them up on internet archive.
How do you scan them? I have a flatbed, but I imagine it would be a tedious process with not great results. I also have a bunch of old PC Accelerator mags in my bookcase. That was a funny magazine.
You need an ADF scanner with a CCD sensor. Try to avoid scanners with CIS sensors as they can produce scanning artifacts. I’ve used Kodak ADF scanner in the past just fine but the standard is the Fujitsu Fi series of ADF scanners. You can debind a number of ways but the method I use is a bookbinder that heats up the spine. Then pull the cover off, pull pages out in 10 page chunks or so, then pull pages apart again from the 10 page chunks.
If you want to scan non-destructively the only method is flatbed then or maybe a camera on a mount but that will almost always produce inferior captures.
Pretty much what I suspected. Thanks. My flatbed is a canoscan 9800 (or 9500?). I also have a Fujitsu ADF scanner. Have been looking at building a camera-based scanner for some old textured photos I’ve been trying to scan.