[bksvol-discuss] Re: question re scanning oddity
- From: socly@xxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:30:03 -0500
All the books I've had this problem with (3 or 4) have been fiction, with no
pictures. I know what you
mean, though. I've done some work for Project Gutenberg with that situation.
Cindy
Cindy
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From: "David" <davidc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:14:01 -0700
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question re scanning oddity
> Is it a text or factual book? In many text books, drawings, figures, charts,
> and tables are often placed, for visual appeal, in locations where they
> break up sentences. I have even seen where publishers will put multiple
> columns around the figure while the rest of the page is not columnated.
>
> David
>
>
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>
> Pam, I think that's a good theory. It would mean,
> though, that the person scanning isn't pressing the
> book down hard enough. Scanners have to learn that. I
> didn't realize it until someone posted something here.
> I was just using the scanner cover to hold the book
> until someone posted that one has to press the book
> page firmly on the platen, but not so hard as to crack
> the platen.
>
> Some of the partial lines are from further down on the
> same page (much easier to put them togeher when that's
> the case), but the theory would fit that
> situation,too, I think.
>
> What that theory does, and I'm quite prepared to
> accept it, is make me think of the scanner as having a
> mind of its own and doing what it wants. maybe it's
> one of Stephen King's machines (smile). I remember one
> of his short stories from years ago where machines ran
> amok -- I especially remember the ringer dryer
> capturing the woman (I was using a ringer-dryer at the
> time).
>
> Cindy
> --- Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Could it be that maybe part of the book isn't open
> > wide enough, and
> > some of the sentences from what should be on the
> > following page are
> > mistakenly recognized as being on the previous one?
> >
> > Pam
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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