There may be several reasons why you want to do this. First and foremost being your computer speed and memory. The Gray Scale images could be huge and the processing power along with the amount of ram in our system may slow down your scanning considerably when you scan and recognize at the same time. If you leave the recognition to a later time, you are free to scan without a itch and come back to the recognition portion when you know you will not be using the computer for a while. You are free to occupy yourself with something else when it's busy recognizing. For some particularly troublesome books, I tend to take the images and save them on my external 250 GB hard drive for later recognition--perhaps 5 years down the road with a better reco engine. I'm sure others can point to other reasons. Pratik Pratik Patel Interim Director Office of Special Services Queens College Director CUNY Assistive Technology Services The City University of New York ppatel@xxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Louise Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:49 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: images scanning and recognizing Is there an advantage to scanning a book to images and then recognizing the entire book after it's been scanned as opposed to scanning and recognizing each page as it's scanned? ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:54 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] images scanning and recognizing > Is there a way to scan but not recognize several books at one sitting and > have each set of images saved in a separate file for later recognizing. If > so, please explain how and how the recognized file would be saved to disk > once the images were recognized for each book. I am sure this is in the > manual somewhere but asking is quicker. > > Yes I have read the manual and plan to re-read it. > > A second question. I notice some of you seem to use gray-scale and 400 dpi > even when the optimizing feature does not suggest it. Please comment and > comment on how to find out which gives the best statistics. How do I clear > my recognision statistics between books? > > E. > > > > >