Copyright and Fair Use: If you have used a book scanner, copier, flat bed scanner, microfilm printer or maybe even a ScanPro microfilm scanner in a library or research facility, you most likely have been exposed to copyright materials and fair use. When dealing with any type of reproduction it is important to observe your institutions's standards for fair use of copyrighted materials.

There is considerable material available on the web concerning copyrighted material and fair use. We have included two links to some of those materials:

University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml

ALA Office for Information Technology Policy
http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

ScanPro 2000 features not available on any other microfilm equipment

Scan up to 40 images per minute.
Create custom folders for your scans.
Select the file type for your scans, PDF, JPEG, TIFF, or TIFF compressed.
Select the name and starting suffix that will given to each scan.
Scan the entire roll of microfilm, or
Select the starting image and then specify how many scans to make.

Create you own digital collections that can be made available on the web.
Quickly prepare materials for Inter Library requests.
Convert the information stored on microfilm to database searchable files.
Prepare materials for courseware and placement on e-reserve.

The ScanPro® 2000 with AUTO-Scan Software Can Automatically Scan All of Your Microfilm.

Create Digital Collections. The ScanPro 2000 can be a microfilm reader pinter and with a single click the ScanPro 2000 will cross-over to creating digital collections from all of your microfilm. No other scanner can do that.

ScanPro 2000 with UCC300 motorized combination carrier and rolls of microfilm waiting to be scanned including 35mm, 16mm, and cartridge film(M)

Optional software Plug-in: AUTO-Scan is optional software that operates with your ScanPro 2000 and your motorized combination roll film carrier (UCC300 carrier for 35mm and 16mm microfilm or UCC400 carrier for 35mm, 16mm, and cartridge (M) microfilm) to automatically scan your microfilm. When AUTO-Scan is installed on your computer (the full version or the free demo version) an AUTO-Scan button is added to your library of buttons and can at anytime be added to your toolbar for automatic scanning . It is that easy.

How does AUTO-Scan work?: The AUTO-Scan software automatically moves the film image into the viewing area and positions the image on the view screen, stops the film, straightens the image, crops the image and saves the image to the specified folder in the selected file format and then continues to the next image until finished. AUTO-Scan doesn't require your film to have "blips" for scanning.

Demo Version of AUTO-Scan. We highly recommend that you evaluate AUTO-Scan with your own film using the demo version of AUTO-Scan that is included on every ScanPro 2000 install CD. Some film is difficult to automatically scan and we want to make sure that you know how AUTO-Scan works with your film before committing to a purchase. There is a no refund policy on AUTO-Scan so the evaluation step is very important.