[bksvol-discuss] Re: Newby scanning questions
- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:31:34 -0500
Denise, you have asked the million dollar question. ;) To my knowledge,
Kurzweil is the only program that announces the confidence level. Since you
can see, you can look at the image of the scanned page and can see how it
looks as you're going along. Since we can't se the image of the scan, our
program tells us verbally how well a page has scanned. Openbook, the other
scanning package for blind users, doesn't have this feature. I hope it will
one day as many of our volunteers would like to have it.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise Wagner
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:19 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Newby scanning questions
Is "confidence level" something that is provided by the software?
Denise
----- Original Message -----
From: EVAN REESE <mailto:mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 9:54 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Newby scanning questions
Actually, scanning to image isn't any faster on my computer. Even in
two-page mode, my computer is usually done recognizing both pages before the
next two pages have been scanned. The one advantage to scanning to image is
that if you want to rerecognize pages, you can do so without having to
rescan them. Still, I generally don't scan to image. I keep track of my
confidence level and if it gets below a certain threshhold, I take a look at
the page and see what's wrong.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Riddle <mailto:captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:43 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Newby scanning questions
Hi, List. I've only scanned a few books for Bookshare, and have a couple of
questions.
A. What are the advantages of scanning to image using Kurzweil rather than
scan and
recognize?
It's faster.
B. Is two-page scan as good, or is it more complicated, assuming the margins
come
out right?
It's also faster to scan in two page mode, I reckon. Gave up on k1000
myself. Too many convolutions.
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