[bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions on Proofing
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 08:07:43 -0400
Thanks Jamie.
On Sunday, I scanned the whole book faster than I'd ever scanned anything
and, with a lot of enthusiasm, I processed it right away and left poor Susan
with a real mess.
I will send her the tip on drawing boundaries as you describe for future
projects. Is there anyway OmniPage can use a bit of intelligence to predict
what should and should not be in a box? Having used a bunch of programs
from Nuance/ScanSoft/SpeechWorks/Caire/Dragon/etc. over the years, I have
found that they tend to get smarter with each release. While at FS, we
noticed terrific improvements in OpenBook whenever we added a new OmniPage
or Fine Reader to the mix. Without an OpenBook or K1000 is it possible to
use two engines to implement a "voting" system to use double recognition to
determine if the outcome was identical, hence, more likely to be correct or
to place a weight (say 60%) on one engine or the other for areas where they
disagree (in OB, we did a lot with contextual searches if voting was turned
on so Fine Reader got a higher score from the get go but if OmniPage sees a
word differently and it appears often in both scans, its choice will win
out).
I really do not want to buy either K1000 or OB but wouldn't mind plunking
down the $180 for Fine Reader if it will make the proofing process simpler.
cdh
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamie Yates, CPhT
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:44 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions on Proofing
Chris, please tell your wife that in my opinion, it is best to draw zones
around the text you want Omnipage to process instead of letting the program
decide for itself. You get a much, much cleaner scan that way because as you
have discovered, Omnipage thinks borders might be a number 1, a letter l or
the letter I or some other thing.
And you can draw exclude zones too so it won't try to process graphics that
you don't want it to do. Yes it takes longer to do this manually but as
you've discovered, it takes time to go through and clean up the mess too.
In using Omnipage for a long time now, I've found this the best way to use
Omnipage.
Jamie in Michigan
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