Sam Gleske on 11 Mar 2014 19:56:17 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] How to Archive Data for 20 Years?




On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Bill Patterson <patterson@computer.org> wrote:
I have some FORTRAN on punch cards (stiff paper, basically).  Does anyone know a utility to enable them to run through a scanner and be decoded into ASCII?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcwxW2ne-UU

^ Looks promising.  I googled "fortran punch card ocr."  Basically you want to use image analysis on the punch card to extract the code.  That's easiest method IMO.

http://codeincluded.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/punchcard-reader-software.html
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