Hi Monica. Sorry it took me so long to reply.I seem to have a problem scanning mass markets in one page mode. Whenever I try to do this every other page comes out missing letters from the binding. Jackie says its because I don't have the spine bent back far enough. I remember this one Maureen Lee book I'd already tried your method of bending the book back every fifteen pages before scanning. I got halfway through scanning it in two page mode and tried it in one page mode and the missing letter phenomenon still occurred. Is anyone else having this problem?
I'll try your settings next time and see how they turn out. Thanks, Julia----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Julia. I don't know if anyone answered you since I'm running behind on mymail. We all have our own ways of doing things. This is what works for me.For mass markets with the OpticBook, I use the following in Kurzweil 11. Itcan easily be adapted for Openbook if needed. First, and I think most important, I scan in single page mode, using the book edge. This is where the strength of the scanner comes into play. This is why the scanner is worth its higher cost. Mass markets tend to have writing that's close to the binding, and using two-page mode means you getsome shadowing or blurring of pages. No amount of holding the book flat fortwo-page mode will totally remove this issue. The book edge of your OpticBook gets right into the crease of your book, and that gives you a nice, clean scan. I find that this saves me hours of clean-up time later.Second, by default, under scanning settings I put the threshold on dynamic, scanning brightness at 60, text quality is normal, and resolution is at 400.This changes to 300 if scanning large print. Under the recognition tab, detect columns is on, partial columns are kept, de-speckle is disabled, and suspicious regions are kept. These are mybaseline settings. I use these by default because they work more often thannot. However, they are just my foundation, and I change them when needed. I optimize each book once, using a page toward the middle of the book tomake sure it has normal print on it. I don't optimize with the cover page or table of contents since those tend to be in a different font and point size.Finally, under the general tab, my confidence threshold is set to 98.7%. This is used when optimizing and when Kurzweil lists poorly scanned pagesfor you later, so this number does seem to matter. Setting it for 100% isn'tuseful because there will always be words and names Kurzweil doesn't know. That would force it to declare every page with a word it doesn't know as poorly scanned. Once you have optimized for your book, be sure to save the settings so you can load them if you have to close Kurzweil or restart your computer. Thatway your scan will be consistent. I give my settings files the same name asmy book, and that makes keeping track easy. I periodically delete the book-specific settings once a book has been accepted on Bookshare.I hope this helps. If not, we can talk on Skype if you like, and we can seeif we can figure out what's going on. My Skype user name is rhyami Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julia Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:19 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] opticbook and nass narketsThere is definitely not equal access. If I buy a mass market from amazon, itusually turns out to be a pretty crappy scan, that means, like Amber, I haveto spend hours editing it just to make it readable. I hate mass markets, nomatter what I do they turn out crummy. I'm going to update the drivers on the opticbook when I get home in hopes they scan better, if not, what settings do you all use for those? Julia----- Original Message ----- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:01 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a LibraryI agree wholeheartedly with everyone here, accessibility is key to making not only consumer appliances and such that the sighted world does indeed take advantage of accessible for everyday use, also applies to books and what we use to read books with in whatever formats we choose, amen and amen! ---------------- "If you go without playing the trumpet for one day, no one knows, twodays, only you know, and more than three days without practicing, girl youbetter look out, because everyone will know!" Today, I find myself constantly saying those words, just to get myself going, to not give up, and it works. Since I learned to play the trumpet at the tender age of 10, I have spent so much passion and much diligence with that instrument that I will not give up on it. Sometimes my instrument puts me into awkward situations where I feel like they won't ever end, but the trumpet gives me a lot of hope with the majestic, crystal-clear sound it brings to my ears. ---------------- Chela Robles E-Mail: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx MSNWindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: jazzytrumpet----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Smith" <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 12:54 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a LibraryVery good points, Judy. I'd also like to add that most of my sighted friends can't even understand the speech synthesizer on my computer. They're always asking me, "How can you understand that?". So, I am sure that they wouldn't be buying books and listening to them with TTS. Melissa Judy s. wrote:Interesting points from everyone! smile. I view the disabling of TTS as about as silly as the digital rights management. What happened when the digital rights management was removed from mp3 music downloads? Sales zoomed up! It didn't change the behaviors of people who were going to steal mp3s. They didn't steal any more mp3sthan they were already stealing -- they just continued stealing the onesthey wanted. However, it did change the market in that a large market segment (myself included) who refused to buy something that had draconian and intrusive "rights" protection on it stepped in and now bought the product that was being offered when the digital rights management was removed and the product was offered at a reasonable price. I don't know a single sighted person, other than myself, who will willingly listen to listen to a book that they can read by listening to it in a synthetic voice. Me? I can't afford expensive audible downloads, and the NLS's offerings are very limited in my tastes, so listening to books via bookshare downloads using either DAISY or TextAloud has become an acquired taste, one I've become used to and actuallyvery much enjoy. If sighted readers were the least bit interested in hearing books read with a synthetic voice, I suspect the market would be flooded with that sort of book. Why? It is much cheaper for a book publisher to produce that en masse than it is to hire a professional reader and studio toproduce the master for each and every book that becomes an audible book.I really doubt that sales of human-read audible books would waver one whit if ebooks had TTS enabled. It would expand the market of ebooks available to the sighted/disabled reader, but that's about it. Just my opinion. Grin. Judy s. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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