[bksvol-discuss] Re: Newby scanning questions

There's absolutely no good reason to scan to image unless your system is so 
incredibly slow that you just can't stand to be in front of it while you wait 
for recognition.  My system is somewhere over 3 or 4 years old and even it can 
recognize a page before I get the next page set up including in two-page mode.  
If you want to be able to rescan a page that came out badly the first time and 
would prefer not flipping through the book to find it, you will have to 
recognize at the time of scanning.  If it seems substandard for that book, you 
can go in, adjust the threshhold setting and try again right there and then, 
erasing the previous badly recognized page to avoid duplicate pages.
As for two pages, I use that in several cases: I use it when I'm doing a mass 
market (typical) paperback and the margins are two narrow to do single page 
mode; I use it on bookclub sized hardbacks where either I'm just too impatient 
or the margins are too narrow to use single page; and, I use it on smaller kids 
books where the same applies as above.  The thing to remember is that if you're 
using two-page mode, you want columns off as much as possible.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mickey 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:21 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] 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?

  B. Is two-page scan as good, or is it more complicated, assuming the margins 
come out right?

  I've been validating for over 5 years, but this is new.

  Thanks.

  Mickey

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