Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> If I had the space, I'd be looking for a scanner like a friend had.
 LE> It did 11x17 scans!!He was posting old Chilton manuals on the web,
 LE> and could just set the manual down on it face down and get a pair
 LE> of facing pages in *one* scan.

 RJT> Now *THAT* would be real handy...!

 RJT> I expect that once I get a scanner,  it'll happen sooner or later that
 RJT> I'll want to get something into the machine that's too big to do in
 RJT> one pass.  And just exactly how I'm going to tackle putting multiple
 RJT> images together to make one big one I don't know just yet. 

 LE> A friends has some software that's supposed to make doing that
 LE> easier. I gues it matches the overlapping areas or something.

What platform does that software run on?

 RJT> Was this scanner way more expensive than typical units are?

 LE> Probably. But he got it used.

I never seem to run into those kind of deals...

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