[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scannin g

  • From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:53:49 -0700

Yes adaptive technology is wonderful! I should have gotten into scanning
sooner:) 
I posted the question on the Kurzweil list and they said there is not a way
to use the optimize with an ADF. It seems there would be though:) 



Kaitlyn
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-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cheryl Fogle
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 6:16 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scannin g

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 <mailto:jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>  
        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 <mailto:razz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
                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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