What if there's no scanner available?

Would it be possible to take a series of pictures and stitch them together? You'd likely need some way to suspend the camera equidistant from the plastic for every shot, but if the lighting was the same and the focal distance never changed... ?

Just thinking out loud, trying to find a way to approximate this methodology without having access to a hand scanner or those old two part HPs.

That's kind of what I figured. So the consensus seems to be that it's doable if there are no real other options, it just means more work in pre-production in order to try and fix the natural distortion applied by the camera lens. Thanks, good to know.

I wonder if this same methodology could be used to digitize the playfield too? Obviously not for a pro-grade restoration, but for a player quality machine, it might be a cost effective way to try and correct a previous "repair" attempt by someone who was no artist.

I might take some pictures and post in a separate thread, don't want to hijack this one. Thanks for the info gents.

Oh believe me, I'm quite familiar with that thread.

That's my main idea though and it would be in a fairly limited area, there are a few spots that could greatly benefit from a water slide decal on my Counterforce playfield and I'm a much better digital image manipulator than I am a painter/artist, so I was hoping to be able to digitize a section or two of the playfield, clean up the mess and then drop the decals on and throw a few coats of clear over top to have a really solid looking playfield.