[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Apprentice Alert, Cindy
- From: "Tiffany H. Jessen" <tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:17:01 -0500
Which program are you having the problem spellchecking in? Is it while
validating a book, or just writing email? If email, I see you use outlook
express. Is it not working when you give it the command to spellcheck, or is
it just not doing it automatically before sending? If the second you have to
go into tools menu then options to check the checkmark.
If you want me to write more specific instructions just ask.
Tiff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:32 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT Apprentice Alert, Cindy
Dear Cindy and anyone who indulges in OT reading,
When my computer crashed, which seems like long years ago! I lost all of
the precious files I'd compiled including all of my validations in
progress and addresses, poetry, quotes, humor, computer tips, Hobbit fics,
downloaded books to read from Bookshare, Book recommendations and oh so
much more. It seems my computer is working reliably at last, with a new
hard drive - Dell does honor their 3 year warrantee. Everybody duck, as my
spell check doesn't seem to be in place, but at LONG last I can answer e
mail and take up validating.
Cindy, I just had to mention that The Apprentice starts tomorrow evening.
I'm hoping you'll be watching...and just heard today that Martha and the
Donald are on the outs and she's blaming him for her apprentice's low
ratings and she says he has been saying mean things about her. Inquiring
minds want to know!
I do admire Martha, but I think her tacky board room and offices that
resemble a genetic engineering lab, and ugly contestants quarters and
cheap rewards might have contributed to the poor show's downfall. Really,
I'll miss it. I loved the tasks her teams were assigned.
Your fine reader sounds like a great tool, but I'm sorry for you that you
have to store each page in its own file and then place them in a book one
by one. It remains true in my experience that computers delight us one
minute and frustrate us the next.
If you should catch this message, and have the time and inclination, I
hope you'll contact me off list so we can supervise Donald and co. as they
seek a new apprentice. All of the e mail addresses of my friends are gone.
Since I had no way of telling them my computer was crashing they, no doubt
thought I was being uncommunicative. So, uphill I go, trying to regroup
and hoping to hear from you in the meantime.
Always With Love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: [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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Dear Cindy and anyone who indulges in OT reading,
When my computer crashed, which seems like long years ago! I lost all of the precious files I'd compiled including all of my validations in progress and addresses, poetry, quotes, humor, computer tips, Hobbit fics, downloaded books to read from Bookshare, Book recommendations and oh so much more. It seems my computer is working reliably at last, with a new hard drive - Dell does honor their 3 year warrantee. Everybody duck, as my spell check doesn't seem to be in place, but at LONG last I can answer e mail and take up validating.
Cindy, I just had to mention that The Apprentice starts tomorrow evening. I'm hoping you'll be watching...and just heard today that Martha and the Donald are on the outs and she's blaming him for her apprentice's low ratings and she says he has been saying mean things about her. Inquiring minds want to know!
I do admire Martha, but I think her tacky board room and offices that resemble a genetic engineering lab, and ugly contestants quarters and cheap rewards might have contributed to the poor show's downfall. Really, I'll miss it. I loved the tasks her teams were assigned.
Your fine reader sounds like a great tool, but I'm sorry for you that you have to store each page in its own file and then place them in a book one by one. It remains true in my experience that computers delight us one minute and frustrate us the next.
If you should catch this message, and have the time and inclination, I hope you'll contact me off list so we can supervise Donald and co. as they seek a new apprentice. All of the e mail addresses of my friends are gone. Since I had no way of telling them my computer was crashing they, no doubt thought I was being uncommunicative. So, uphill I go, trying to regroup and hoping to hear from you in the meantime.
Always With Love,
Lissi
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: [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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