Hi all,
I agree with Sandy, camera scanners are good for quick things, and they
work the best if you are visually impaired and not totally blind.
Unless you have a stand for your camera, positioning the scanner to
best effect is difficult. They sound good, but unfortunately, that's
all they do.
Go with the Plustek scanner. Yes, it is expensive, but it's well worth
it if you are going to scan books. Oh, and don't throw out Kurzie,
Open Book has not been updated in years, and was always an inferior
product because it is one of a multitude of software packages promoted
by Vispero. Kurzweil1000 is made by a company whose *only* product
and business is OCR. They don't pretend to be the be-all and end-all
for blind people. They do one thing, and they do that expertly!
Ann P.
Original message:
Thanks everyone! Sounds like the Plustek scanners might be the way to
go. I notice a lot of chopped off words, and the margins very well
could be the issue. I've never thought to play with the ones I have
now.
A lot of the books I have that I want to contribute are all from the
same publisher, and they all feel similar. All paperback, slightly
rough paper.
Their copyrights are from the late 90s.
Chelsea
On 6/4/20, sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not aware of a Microsoft or Canon scanner that gives the "bookedge"
feature. This feature is important for catching letters inside a very narrow
margin, and the Plustek scanners are phenomenal for these books! I have a
Plustek Opticbook 3800, which cost me $250 nearly 10 years ago and is still
functional, and it has faithfully scanned pages since that time. I use it
with Kurzweil and a Lenovo Yoga 710 (a not particularly souped-up computer)
and my scans take less than 20 seconds. That's fast enough, and the
important thing is they are often nearly perfect, unless the book I'm
scanning has yellowed pages, marks, or some other issue.
Sandi
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Chelsea Dye
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 12:06 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about advertising in books
Is that a particular scanner brand? I've got an HP CanoScan. I don't know if
it's book quality or the scanner, but I've run into a lot of errors with it
that I think could be prevented.
On 6/4/20, Deborah Murray <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Chelsea,
The Bookshare policy has always been to leave the ads and blurbs from
other books—as long as it scans well enough to be readable.
In my personal opinion, K1000 has always been a superior OCR program
to OpenBook, no matter what your scanning source is.
I’ve never used a camera to scana book, much preferring my OpticBook
scanner to anything else I’ve ever used.
Deborah
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chelsea Dye
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 7:50 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about advertising in books
Hello,
In the process of scanning some of my books, I noticed that there is
often company advertising, and mention of other books at the end of a lot
of them.
Are we supposed to keep that in our files? Also, I am considering
switching scanning programs to open book with the pearl camera. Has
anyone on this list used it, and what do you think? Based on the demo
I heard, it sounds much faster than K 1000
Chelsea
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