A friend of mine asked me to find out where he can purchase a large scanner capable of scanning something as large as a newspaper page. He wants to send the scans back to his friends in his hometown overseas.

I looked at BB, FS, S/BD, OD, etc. and the largest that I've seen is
8 1/2 by 14.

ANY comments would be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

Unless you're going to do a lot of scanning, you'll probably better off checking to see if places like Kinkos and Staples offer large format scanning services.

Alternatively, institutional libraries, e.g. university or hospital, may have a large format scanner. You need a friend in the right place for that though.

Wow, newspaper page one would be really spendy (if they even exist!

The biggest ones I have seen are roller type ones where you feed the paper through, and they were for professional blueprints etc.. probably in the several thousand dollar range!

I would have the same advice as bylo, check out kinkos or that kind of place.. probably would be in the 2-3 dollar/page range for that size scanning.. might want to just clip out articles and scan them individually on a smaller scanner! Or just use canada.com since that has a lot of the same news as the national post and assorted other papers..

Thanks for the feedback. But, my friend is planning to buy one (stubborn!) and I was wondering if anyone has seen these larger ones on display anywhere?

Thanks.

I am pretty sure your friend has no idea of the cost of a large format scanner

Try here to get an idea of prices. For example, one model- a 38" monochrome scanner is $12,500 USD.

Lots of excellent advice from people here. Trust us, your friend might want one of these puppies, but I don't think he needs it unless he's gonna open a large-format scanning and printing business. Then that $12500US could be a business expense.

If he doesn't want to do what othdawg suggested (clip out articles and scan them individually) then he could scan each page in sections with a regular sized scanner, then composite the scans together using a program like Photoshop. He could also OCR the pages. Then he could send small text files to his friend instead of large image files.

Dave.