[bksvol-discuss] Re: More FineReader testing

I now have Fine Reader 5 for the Mac. Apparently
that's the only one available. But unlike the one I
had before, it will only save one page at a time, as
far as I can tell. It scans and "reads" o.k., and
saves instantly, but I have to save each page in a
folder and then copy them one by one to the book file
I'm working on. Fortunately, I'm only scanning missing
pages or short children's books. I preferred the other
one, where I could convert and save several pagees as
one file.

Cindy

--- Donna Smith <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Okay.  I've done some playing around with FR8 this
> weekend.  I'm using an
> Epson Perfection 1660 and I've chosen the FineReader
> interface option for
> scanning.  I also went through the set up options
> and read the help files.
> It's amazing what you can learn like that!  <big
> grin>  I unchecked
> everything they said might slow down the scan and
> everything that looked to
> be unnecessary since I only want text and will do
> the editing in another
> program, but it's still very sluggish.  The really
> strange thing is that it
> gets slower with each page scanned.  So the lapse
> between scans for the
> first page will be 15 seconds, then 22 seconds, then
> 28, then 35, then 40.
> I'm not sure how slow it will get because my
> patience run out long before we
> get there!  I've never had this happen with any
> scanning software.  
> 
>  
> 
> I then went back to FR7 and unfortunately got the
> same results.  All this is
> with my laptop, but it has a lot of memory and is
> usually a pretty fast
> computer.
> 
>  
> 
> The other thing I don't like about FR8 is that it is
> saving each page
> scanned as a file in my ebooks folder.  This is
> happening even though I
> checked the option in the save dialogue to create
> one file for all pages and
> am not even saving it as a batch file when I'm done
> scanning and saving.  I
> think FR7 did something like this, too, but it saved
> it somewhere in the
> FineReader manager and I just had to go in
> periodically and delete the file
> so it could start all over again.  
> 
>  
> 
> I wanted to go back to my desktop to check on the
> setting options I used
> before, but can't get into it.  It's a long story,
> but the end result is
> that I can't access anything on my desktop for now. 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone still have the last message I sent out
> about setting up
> FineReader for scanning?  Of course, my copy of that
> message is on my
> on-strike  desktop.  
> 
>  
> 
> I'm determined to get to the bottom of all this.  I
> like FR too much to give
> up on it yet.
> 
>  
> 
> Peace and Hope,
> 
>  
> 
> Donna
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Pratik patel
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 8:28 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More FineReader
> testing
> 
>  
> 
> Donna,
> 
>  
> 
> Under FRPro's Scanning options, which interface are
> you using?  It will
> typically ask you to use iether the original
> application (i.e., the
> scanner's interface) or the Fine Reader interface. 
> What scanner are you
> using?  with my trial version, I have not
> encountered that particular
> problem.  In fact, a book scanned with a gray-scale
> and 400 DPI setting
> scans faster with the same scanner than it does with
> either K1000 or
> Openbook.
> 
>  
> 
> Pratik
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Donna Smith
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:32 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] More FineReader testing
> 
> Hello to those of you who are playing around with
> FineReader.  I currently
> own FR Professional version 7.0, but am testing
> version 8.0 on a trial
> basis.  I've started scanning a book tonight, and
> can't figure out why it is
> scanning so incredibly slowly.  I think I'm using
> the same settings I use
> with FR7, but the lapse between pages is
> interminable, and I don't even have
> the box checked to pause between pages!  Usually, I
> check this box and tell
> it to pause for 5 seconds.  Any ideas?  
> 
>  
> 
> The resulting scan is good except for treating the
> headings like columns and
> ending it with a section break continuous.  The text
> of the book is
> beautiful, though.  Of course, I get beautiful text
> with FR7 without the
> other problems, so if this doesn't get better soon,
> I will be saving myself
> the cost of the upgrade.  
> 
>  
> 
> I'm very interested to hear what others are
> experiencing.
> 
>  
> 
> Peace and Hope,
> 
>  
> 
> Donna
> 
> 


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