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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Scanning images & different formats
- Message-ID: <sheldon.715465857@pv1417.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:30:57 GMT
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- I'm looking for some suggestions of possible solutions.
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- We have a need to scan 11"x17" map sheets for use with a program called
- LT Plus, which is from the forestry service.
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- We can borrow the use of a scanner right now that we know works.
- However it's somewhat of an inconvenience, and we'd need to purchase
- this card from Houston Instruments for $2500 to make it work.
-
- We've been searching for alternatives. For $750 we can purchase
- an HP B&W Scanjet, and scan the sheets in two parts.
- However, the software that comes with the Scanjet only supports standard
- DOS graphics formats like PCX and TIFF.
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- LT Plus doesn't like any of these. I'm not familiar with any of the ones
- LT Plus supports, but they are:
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- .gis .optr9 .ras .rlc .rstr .rle1
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- We're looking for a solution. A scanner which will do 11"x17" sheets would
- be ideal. Or software to drive the Scanjet and produce one of the above
- formats. Or software which will convert pcx, tiff, or anything the scanjet
- supports to one of the formats that LT Plus supports.
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- Our goal would be to spend less than $2500 on any hardware/software
- combination. We can use software under Ultrix, SCO Unix, or MS-DOS.
-
- In the meantime we'll keep looking around. Any help would be appreciated.
-
- Thanks,
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- Steve Sheldon sheldon@iastate.edu
- Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
- 2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University (515) 294-5429
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