I know nothing for certain, but thought of two possibilities.
First, if the pages you are scanning are particularly thin, the characters
from the back of the page will sometimes be seen leaking through the page
when the scanner shines on it. Besides for some bibles and dictionaries I
don't think I've seen pages this thin, but Kurzweil's manual does mention
this and suggests you try to put something thicker and blank like a stack of
printer paper or a piece of cardboard behind the page you're scanning. If
you're scanning a whole book like this, and moving it behind each page you
scan, it will add to your scanning time drastically, so I don't know if that
sounds at all appealing.
A second idea happened to someone on list not too long ago, though I don't
remember who. The thing was, when they put the book down to be scanned, the
inside sleeve of the book jacket behind it was still able to be seen around
the perimeter of the page desired to be scanned. If you have column mode
off, the garbled junk from the sleeve will be seen on the outer end of each
line of the page, or if columns mode is on it will make the junk appear at
the top or bottom of the page. What you could try is either removing the
book jacket, or if it's taped in like the libraries sometimes do you could
just put the thicker blank papers or cardboard between the sleeve and first
page of the book.
Just ideas..
Tiff
----- Original Message -----
From: "bud schwab" <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <k1000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] garbage on some scanned pages
> Hi gang,
>
> Often when I scan a book on some pages at the bottom there is a lot of
> garbage which I have to delete. I had my wife look at those particular
> pages and there is nothing there at all. It shows up in the form of a lot
> of punctuation marks and various letters. It's a real pain. I have tried
> different settings on the scanner which changes the amount of junk but
> doesn't eliminate it. I am using the latest k1000 and an Ebson 1640
> scanner I believe it is. Any ideas and has anybody else had this
> experience? It might happen in maybe a third of the pages of a book. Am I
> in need of a new scanner?
> Thanks.
>
> Bud Schwab
> W 6 Z Y P
> Malibu, California
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