[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Old Mass Market Paperbacks
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:29:51 -0700
Hi Roger,
I don't use OpenBook, so don't know where to tell you to look for a gray
scale setting exactly. It should be in your scanner settings menu. You
should have options such as, color, gray scale, dynamic, and static. You
may have either some or all of these as options. I scan exclusively using
gray scale. And doing this, if the results prove to be some that you like
will keep you from having to adjust your scanner brightness every time you
switch pages. What gray scale does is adjust itself as needed, essentially.
Nope. I have no idea how this is achieved. What I do know is that the
results are much, much better, in my experience than any other scanner
setting. The recognition time is longer than with other settings, but less
long when you take into consideration the amount of time you'd be spending
correcting all the mistakes that you get with other settings.
Good luck!
Happy scanning.
Mayrie
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Okay, I just subjected one of those recalcitrant pages to the adjustment of
contrast remedy. I started at 25 which resulted in my being told that I had
a blank page and rescanned it several times adjusting the contrast up in
increments of 25 each time. When I got to 175 I got a fairly decent scan.
The text was a little unclear at the end of the page, but I may be getting
the hang of this. I still want to do a little more experimenting, though,
and I probably will not tackle one of these decrepit old books until I have
finished proofreading the fairly lengthy one I am proofreading now.
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