[bksvol-discuss] Re: A few more questions about Kurzweil

Hey Monica:

Yes, this does help a lot.  How do you determine wehre to put the brightness 
and which threshholding to use and which scanning thing to use?  There are so 
many settings!!

I had another question though.  My scanner dodes this weird thing where if I 
scan a book with words on both sides of the page such as a paperback novel, 
instead of putting the page breaks where they sould be it says "page 67-68," 
instead of putting the page breaks where they should be.  When I had the trail 
version of Kurzweil it still did this.  I did not know abot the 2 page setting 
in Kurzweil and the one book I had scanned that got rejected from Bookshare I 
had scanned with Text Cloner Pro.  Does Kurzweil still preserve the page breaks 
or how does that work?  Do I have to have it in the 2 page setting for the page 
breaks to show correctly?

Thanks, Kerri
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Monica Willyard 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:04 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A few more questions about Kurzweil


  Hi, Kerri.  If you scan a book in either FineReader or Kurzweil it will 
preserve the page breaks for you.  In Kurzweil, it will keep page breaks intact 
even if you convert the book to rtf format.  That is the format Bookshare 
prefers and is what we all convert to for the final validation process.  I 
cannot speak to the version of FineReader you have since I have only used 
versions 7 and 8.

  As for optimizing scanning in Kurzweil, I turn to a page that has a lot of 
text on it, usually something like 15 pages into the book.  I use that page to 
optimize the scan.  Then I save the optimized settings into a settings file 
with the same name as the book I'm going to scan.  Sometimes I optimize the 
scan with a different page if I'm getting poor quality with other pages in the 
book.  When I've finished scanning, I save my document and then do a rank 
spelling to catch scanner mistakes.

  I hope this helps and makes sense.  (smile) 


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