[bksvol-discuss] Re: the unscannable book
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:39:45 -0700
Hi Julia,
Two-page mode doesn't help, in my experience. The space in the book between
pages is smaller, as you know, than usual, and OCR tends not to be able
always to distinguish which text should be on each page.
The book doesn't always lie completely flat if you shift the book to beyond
where the spine is when scanning in single-page mode. However, It seems to
me that there is a space about one-quarter or a bit more of an inch, right
up next to the edge of the scanner where the book gutter (the place where
the pages meet) presses into the edge of the scanner that doesn't scan. So,
by pushing the book just beyond the gutter to scan a page, you're forcing
that unscannable spot to be the gutter of the book, and it doesn't matter
much if that part isn't completely flat.
If the book is a paperback, you can often hold the book open wide enough
that it will be nearly flat anyway. It's, as I said, a bit awkward, but it
has worked for me before. Occasionally I get junk characters in that icky
between pages spot that I have to remove, but I find removing junk
characters, though annoying, and tedious, much less a problem than inserting
text that got cut off.
Sorry for such a long ramble!
Hope it helped a little.
Maybe others have other experiences.
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: the unscannable book
Hi Jamie, Mayrie, and list.
Thanks for your quick responses and helpful advice. I should've
mentioned that I have an optic book. How does it help in scanning these
difficult books, besides the one-page mode, which helps with all books. So,
if you put the book so that it doesn't quite line up with the edge of the
scanner, how do you get it to lie flat? Does two page mode work better if
you press on the spine?
I realize that I'm asking a lot of questions, sorry. Julia
On 03/08/2011 6:57 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
Books with little to no margins are so hard because you either get a dark
line in the middle that covers part of the text or you don't get the text at
all. I find the Optic book helps with this a lot, also if you can press hard
on the spine. If not, I find I have to type in the missing letters or words
as I scan which takes a long, long time. Or send a copy to Bookshare that
they can chop and run through their high speed document feed scanner.
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Jamie in Michigan
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