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In the University of Oregon English Department, where I'm a grad on my
lunch hour, we are looking at conversion of Renaissance texts into e-texts.
In some cases it is desirable to go to source documents that were hand "pulled"
on unevenly inked letterpresses, using types which are no longer in use
(old versions of Caslon or Janson, say, or even Black Letter (Gothic); long
"s" shaped like "f" is a potential problem; and some texts have the archaic
"v" as "u." Can current scanner technology handle these texts? If so, what
hardware and software are indicated, and what's the price range? We are 
typing at present, but it would be nice if we could pick up the pace.