Well, it helps having a good scanner to start with! There's a high-speed scanner at the office that does a very good job, which makes life easier for the OCR program, which also does a very good job. The end result is a very clean scan (usually). Carrie tina birenbaum <tinabir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I didn't know bookshare uses fine reader that gives good scans! I will have to get that whenever my scanner finally croakes for good. > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gerald Hovas" >To: >Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 07:50:04 -0600 >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books >Gary, >OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It's the software which turns >the scanned image into text. As Carrie mentioned, Bookshare uses FineReader >for in-house scanning. >HTH >Gerald >-----Original Message----- >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro >Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:34 PM >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books >What's the ocr program? >(curious) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carrie Karnos > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:30 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books > Mike is exactly right. In the Bookshare office, there's an >industrial-strength chopper which makes it very easy to despine books, a >scanner that zips thru about 100 pages a minute, and an OCR program that >reads maybe 1200 pages/hour (so it runs overnight usually). The longest part >of the entire process is doing the editing, which luckily is fairly minimal >because the scanner and OCR program are both good. This is why I usually >submit 20-30 books a week. While Pallavi works on university donations, I >handle everything else - the New York Times bestsellers, books requested by >people on this list, random donations, etc, etc. > Carrie > Mike Pietruk wrote: > Donna > The reason Carrie can submit 25 books is that as, an inside volunteer, >she > is using an automated high speed scanner which works on the books after > the pages have been unbound. > This scanner costs thousands of dollars so it is not practical for home > use nor would most of us be willing to see books destroyed in the >process. > Hence, while we may scan one book, Carrie can do 10 or more. > If Benetech could afford a plethora of these scanners and had the > volunteers to operate them, just think of the output that could be > generated. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- > Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping