[bksvol-discuss] Re: Killers Wake by Bernard Cornwell -- Sorry, hadto nuke it
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:21:25 -0500
If the book is wider than 12 inches when opened, things get really
tricky. There is almost no choice but scanning one single page at a time.
But even in this case, there are some simple things you can do to make
life a little easier.
I found it helpful to build a kind of ledge to both sides of the scanner,
using a combination of magazines and encyclopedia sized books, until
there is a flat surface flush with the scanning bed extending on both
sides. Like that I can put the single page of the book on the glass plate
and press it down appropriately, without having to hold up the other
side.
But this is definitely not as good as a larger scanner. Now that I think
about it, I will check at home if I still have the SCSI card of my now
defunct 4C in my old computer. If I find it, I'll yank it out and will
ship it to you. Stay tuned.
Guido
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Hi Guido,
Since there seems to be interest you should probably post your tips
here. We can all usually benefit from finding out how others do
something. It seems that over time we can tend to work ourselves into a
rut, and do something just because that's the way we've been doing
it. Unfortunately, what I had in this case was either a book too big, or
a
scanner too small. I don't know why it was so darn big as it was just an
ordinary novel, but it missed both ways. From top to bottom was bigger
than 9 inches, and when opened it was longer than 12 inches. I've had
success in the past doing books slightly larger than the scanner bed, but
it tends to terminate either headers or footers. The thing I didn't like
about this one was the length, as too much care needed to be taken in
getting the placement right so pages wouldn't crumple when the binding was
pushed down. What I really need to do is find an inexpensive PCI SCSI
card
so I can hook up my HP 4P again.
Dave
At 02:14 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote:
>Actually, I found it rather amusing, that all unconcerned got bent out
>of shape. The only one not upset with me seems Dave, who simply did the
>practical thing: fixed his submission without too much adoo and will
>repost shortly, so I can publish it.
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>Before posting about scanning hardcovers, I'd like to hear from Dave
>about the size of this Cornwell book. My tips assume the width of the
>book when opened, does not exceed 11.5 inches.
>
>Think quality!
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>Guido
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>Guido D. Corona
>IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
>IBM Research,
>Phone: (512) 838-9735
>Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
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>See Guido, you nuked that book due to limitations in your validating
method,
>not limitations of the book. And now you've got everyone validating their
>own scans to protect them from your ruthless ravages! Have you been
enough
>of an intellectual irritant for one day?
>Btw, if you have tricks for scanning a big hardcover two pages at a time
>please post them for the good of all. <smile>
>Kellie
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