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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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:
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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
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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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