Fine reader is the software that does the opticle character recognition
(OCR) so what type of scanner you have is a completely separate issue.
Unless you have a stand alone reading machine. What program do you
currently use when scanning?
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
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----- Original Message -----
From: "tina birenbaum" <tinabir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 12:02 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books
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" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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