Unfortunately, Allison, my advice, based on my experience with picture books, is to forget trying to scan it and just type in the words. You could scan pages if there are whole pages of text, but I found it was easier, when there was a line of text under or above or on the side of a picture, to describe the picture in brackets, (if you have a sighted person to help with this and you both have the patience) and type the text. Or just say, in brackets, illustratio, and type the text. I don't think bookshare has the capability to retain illustrations. Cindy ---- Original Message ----- From: "Allison" <alwaysallie@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:06:38 -0400 To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Books with pics? > Hey all, could use some tips on this one. > > Am trying to scan a book which is more picture than text. The pictures are > said to be elaborate and beautiful, but I think the book should be up there cuz at the very least it is a good story. Nevertheless, I'm having a really hard time getting the book to scan well. Often a page will have a picture, then some text in the middle, another picture, and then some more text at the bottom of the page. I've tried the basic Kurzweil tricks that I know, Moving the book different ways on the scanner, Optimizing scans per each page, etc. I'm out of ideas though guys. Anyone scan books like this? I've not done it before now and could use some advice. > > Thanks a lot! > > Allison > > "It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing > nothing, really doing nothing." (Gertrude Stein, writer, everybody's autobiography) -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10