Congrats Chris.I consider myself a mediocre nurd, but your problem was beyond my even taking a guess.
It's always the things you don't count on that either bite you in the butt or save your cookies.
Anyway, congrats and glad to have you aboard. Bob----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 6:54 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Introduction/Possibly Difficult Question...
Hi, The problem on the XP machine turned out to be that the PC was so old that it had both USB 1.xx and 2 ports. I had forgotten this and plugged the scanner into a USB 1 which, instead of giving useful error messages, acted differently each time. When I changed ports, I was able to run all of the diagnostics successfully.I hope to get the book scanned today but, because it's on pretty low quality(soft) paper, I think it will need a lot of babysitting to ensure a good scan without paper jamming problems. I'll send you, Jamal and Jim Homme copies as soon as I get it scanned and maybe run a spell checker. I'll probably also set up "BlindNerdBookClub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" today or tomorrow so we can have a place people can go with requests on which we can take action. BTW: Did your gift subscription start working? cdh -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie McBride Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 2:00 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Introduction/Possibly Difficult Question... Chris: I sent u a note on the programming list--did u get it--requesting u to send me the error message. The nice thing about what u 2 are doing is that u can scan & Susan can validate, thereby getting the book in2 collection immediately. Just make sure you're both signed up to be volunteers. If you've got skype let me know & maybe we can talk this thru together. Did u buy omnipage separate or did it come w/the scanner? On 5/24/08, Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi, I've been working as a contractor for BSO for some time now and have beenamember for a very long time. A few friends of mine on the blindprogrammingmailing list and I wanted to find a way to get our very nerdy booksscannedand onto Bookshare.org. I volunteered to get a scanner and my sightedwifevolunteered to do a lot of verification and add textual augmentations to describe diagrams and such. In theory we were off and running. Disaster one hit when we found out that our trusty, albeit ancient, Epson scanner had stopped working and that there were no drivers for it to beusedwith Vista, now mostly a requirement in our household. So, undeterred, I surfed over to the newegg.com web site and started searching for areplacement scanner that had one requirement - a reasonably sized documentfeeder. I came upon two that sounded pretty good. One was an Epson with a 30sheetdocument feeder and the other was the Xerox DocuMate 152. Both cost about$350 and because the Xerox supported duplex scanning and had a 50 sheetADF,I chose it. At this point, dismay turned into anticipation as we waited for the shiny new scanner to arrive at our house which it did late Wednesday afternoon. Like kids on Christmases Eve we had to wait to open it the following dayasthat evening had already been booked. Susan, my lovely wife, took the thing out of its box early Thursday, assembled the small number of parts one needs to attach and startedloadingthe software. Here is where the real fear and loathing starts. Firstoff,the document says nothing about having to download special drivers for Vista; the box says "Vista Ready" and the installation routine saysnothingabout downloading anything special for the newish OS. OF course, at theendof the list of instructions, it gave a URL for getting the Vista drivers but, by that time, we had already ground poor Susan's main PC to a near haul. Fortunately, Vista has restore points so she was able to automatically back out most of the install and get the rest out via the control panel. We then attached the device to an old XP machine that we use for backups(wehave a pair of monstrous external drives that mirror each other and holdallof our important data attached to it). This is a five or six year old absolutely vanilla Dell with nothing special that might cause hardware conflicts. Following the instructions on the installation CDs to the letter of thelaw(not exactly an easy task with JAWS) I got everything to install withoutanycrashes and only the typical reboots that accompany most any installation procedure. It was now time to turn on the beast and give it a try. I powered it on using its own power switch and opened OmniPage 15. JAWS says for help using OmniPage hit F1 twice quickly. Often JAWS keystrokes teach me a bit about the application so I took a look at what they had.Itturned out to be documentation on how to use OmniPage 10.0 with JAWS and said that it didn't necessarily work with other versions. JAWS worked poorly with version 15 but good enough to try to get the scanner going.I went to the OmniPage 15 File/Get Page/Scan menu and hit ENTER. This putme into a dialogue that asked if I wanted to download the latest scanner database and then choose which one I wanted to use with my hardware. Ifollowed the instruction and on the next page of the wizard, chose the top one of three drivers available for the DocuMate 152. It then told me that not all tests were run but gave me only a "finish" button to proceed whichIpressed.OmniPage then told me that an unspecified error had occurred. I tried theother two drivers with identical results (except once when I did get an error message but for no reason obvious to me the pages I had in the ADFgotsucked through the scanner. I fiddled about with all sorts of different settings that looked like they might be helpful and even when to the scanners and cameras page in Control Panel only to crash while moving through its tabs. So, utter dismay and despair, fear and loathing. I called the 800 number for Xerox technical support and connected with a pretty well uninformed individual who, after having me try a few things, said that she would have to call back on Tuesday afternoon and dosomethingusing remote access to take over my PC to get it figured out. More fearandloathing as I had forgotten this was a holiday weekend. I tried a few more things with the device and made no progress.A relatively low cost scanner with a 50 page duplex ADF would be great for scanning whole books. Said scanner that sits like a toaster on my desk isof no use to anyone. So, after my long tale of disappointment and misfortune, does anyone here have any ideas about how to get a Xerox DocuMate 152 running either on XPorVista? Frustrated, cdh-- Jackie McBride Please join my fight against breast cancer <http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1790196&pg=personal&fr_id=3489> & Check out my homepage at: www.abletec.serverheaven.net To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. __________ NOD32 3128 (20080523) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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.-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG.Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1463 - Release Date: 5/23/2008 3:36 PM
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