[bksvol-discuss] Re: Any Difference in OpenBook's OCR Engines?

It looks like she has AVG, and if I remember correctly, AVG does that. It's 
perfectly harmless and I have no idea why it does that, but I do know it's an 
AVG thing. Take care.
Julie Morales
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Evan Reese 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 2:13 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Any Difference in OpenBook's OCR Engines?


  Thanks, I'll try it out.

  Btw, does anyone else's email program say 'attachment' when listing mail from 
Silvara, although there is no attachment?  No one else causes this in my 
Outlook Express, unless they actually have an attachment.  I don't know that 
there's a problem, but I'm wondering why this happens.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Silvara 
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:46 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Any Difference in OpenBook's OCR Engines?


    Hi Evan:

    When I used Openbook I took some time scanning pages with different 
contrast settings. It does make a difference. It takes a few minutes in prep 
time to get the best settings. 
    Hope this helps.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Evan Reese 
      To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:15 PM
      Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Any Difference in OpenBook's OCR Engines?


      I was just curious if any OpenBook users had noticed any difference in 
the three OCR engines it uses.  I tried scanning a page or two using all three 
and I couldn't really tell any difference.  But I've only scanned three books 
so far, all using Fine Reader as the default.  But those with more experience 
might be more aware of differences that might not show up in a page or two.  
Even a very slight difference that's hard to detect will add up to quite a few 
errors after three- or four-hundred pages.
       If I get any responses, and if I see a consensus brewing that either 
omnipage or Recognita is better, I will change to one of those.  I get pretty 
good results with Fine Reader.  But it could always be better, and I'll change 
in a moment if more experienced people think one of the others is better.  If 
they don't agree, of course, then I'll stick with Fine Reader.

      Also, another reason I ask is that the book I'm reading through is of 
very high quality.  Once the preliminaries are over, the text is extremely 
good.  It might be better than my OpenBook could do.  Of the two hardcovers I 
have scanned so far, they came out pretty well, but this might - might - be 
better.  I don't know what system he is using, but it is very good.  It still 
misses some things, of course.  It's not perfect, especially those 
beginning-of-chapter first words that no scanner seems to be able to get right. 
 But there are quite a few pages here with nothing whatever wrong on them.  I 
admit, I'm a little jealous.  I get perfect pages, too, but I don't think I get 
as many as this guy gets.  Sure, not all books are created equal, so maybe he 
got an extremely excellent font in this book.  But maybe I'm not using the best 
OCR engine, or the best settings I could be.  I've just been using automatic 
contrast on the books I've done so far.

      Thanks for any feedback.


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