[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scannin g

  • From: "Cheryl Fogle" <cfogle@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:15:38 -0600

I found two ways to get around the need to hold the book down.  Sometimes I 
place the book flat on the scanner and close the lid which keeps pressure 
constant and helps when I'm using the optimize feature on kurzweil that takes 
multiple scans to analyze settings.  At other times, I set a stack of books or 
something on my desk right near the scanner that's about the same height and 
rest the page on the stack of books so it's flat and the same height as the 
page I'm scanning.  Still I've had to hold down many books on a flatbed 
scanner.  At work I have an autodocument feeder but it jams the paper and I 
can't use it to optimize scanning. Isn't adaptive technology fun *smile* 

Cheryl Fogle MA
Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University of New Mexico


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jake Brownell 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:45 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scannin g


  Patti,
      The BookShare offices and a few lucky volunteers like Kaitlyn use ADFs, 
auto document feeders to scan books. the downside to that is that you have to 
remove the binding of a book to use them.
      Yes those of us who use general traditional flatbed scanners have to hold 
the book flat against the scanner class and turn the pages in between scans. I 
have only had a few hard backs where it wasn't necessary to constantly apply 
pressure. The book has to have a loose binding and pages that aren't too 
tightly bound together.
      Hopefully I'll find more that don't require a constant hand on them, but 
I doubt it. In any case you have to be ready to turn pages, so holding it down 
isn't that bad. Although some paperbacks can be quite annoying, that is, trying 
to hold them flat enough so words close to the binding scan well.

  HTH,
  Jake
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Patti Johnson 
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:33 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Scannin g


    I was asking the gentleman at FS today if he scanned books and he said no.  
He said what he knew about that was that most  paperbacks have cheap paper for 
pages, and the fact you have to hold the binding down to get a good scan, so he 
had never tried scanning a book but said he thought he might try it.  How many 
of you hold the binding down while scanning?  Seems to me if you are going to 
do that then you have to sit at the computer/scanner the whole time the book is 
scanning, whether you do it in segments but still, that sounds like a lot of 
effort, and wondered if that is what you all do.  I also wonder if hardback 
books are easier, if you have to hold that binding down as often on a hardback 
book. The gentleman at FS said that was one of the things he really had liked 
about the reading edge, that all that effort wasn't necessary because of how 
you had the book positioned on the scanner, and the fact you could put it in a 
farther back position, however he said it.  Anyway, just curious,
    Patti

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