I had the confidence level set at 95 but changed it to 100. I will try 98.6 and see what that does. I am using normal, and not draft. I am scanning using grayscale. I have speckling disabled, and I started with a resolution of 300, but have considered going up to 600.
Thanks Nimer J Nimer M. Jaber The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender via reply e-mail, and delete the material from any computer. Website: http://www.empowertheblind.org Phone: (720) (251-4530) Monica Willyard wrote:
Lol. I'm glad someone else gets turned around with programs from school and home. I thought I was the only one. Since you're using Kurzweil, you have a lot of flexibility in how it scans various types of documents. How much experience do you have with scanning in general? When someone is having trouble with scanning a book, I don't know whether to start with the basics or if a person is experienced but needs to troubleshoot a specific book. Soplease stop me if this isn't helping.Have you tried using grayscale as the thresholding option? Sometimes it will work when other options won't. One setting that made a big difference for me is changing the confidence threshold from the Kurzweil default of 95 to 98.6. This setting is under general in the Kurzweil settings area. This makes Kurzweil work harder during optimization to get a clear scan. 95 percent accuracy for a book is too low, and this tells Kurzweil that it's got to do a better job with each page. As a last resort, changing the print quality from normal to draft can work with older books where the print issomewhat faded.Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker-----Original Message----- From: NimerSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: For Nimer: Re Openbook ScanningI'm sorry, did I say openbook? I use openbook at school for documents and such. I actually use kurzweil at home for scanning books. Sorry about the confusion, but I'm sure that these settings will still apply.Thanks Nimer J Nimer M. Jaber The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender via reply e-mail, and delete the material from any computer. Website: http://www.empowertheblind.org Phone: (720) (251-4530) Monica Willyard wrote:Hi, Nimer. You're asking a question I love to see on the list because it means someone is learning something new. What version of Openbook are you using? That will help us answer your questions better. I'll share my experiences with you, and there are others who use Openbook daily whomightlend a hand too. I was an Openbook user for over 15 years before switching to Kurzweil last year. So my experience is with version 7 and earlier. I think much of what I'm about to write can be used in Openbook 8 as well.Onething I can tell you that will help you get better scans in general is to turn off the despeckle setting that Openbook has turned on by default when you install it. Especially if you are using a paperback book, despeckle seems to cause more problems than it solves. It also helps to turn off an option that says white on black scanning. This setting is good for newspapers and such, but it's bad for most books and should be turned offbydefault. When I used Openbook, I set it for auto-contrast and turned offthelanguage analyst too. I saved these settings as the default settings so I wouldn't need to adjust them every time I ran Openbook. I consistently got the best scans from these settings, though I did have to adjust thecontraston certain books if the auto feature didn't work the way I wanted. I hope this will help you with your scan. If I haven't explained it well, please ask for a better explanation. I'm looking forward to seeing your book inthecollection soon. (smile) Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a listof available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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