[bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books

I didn't know bookshare uses fine reader that gives good scans! I will have to 
get that whenever my scanner finally croakes for good.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 07:50:04 -0600
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books

>Gary,

>OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition.  It's the software which turns
>the scanned image into text.  As Carrie mentioned, Bookshare uses FineReader
>for in-house scanning.

>HTH

>Gerald

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro
>Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:34 PM
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>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books


>What's the ocr program?
>(curious)

>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Carrie Karnos
>  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:30 AM
>  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books


>  Mike is exactly right.  In the Bookshare office, there's an
>industrial-strength chopper which makes it very easy to despine books, a
>scanner that zips thru about 100 pages a minute, and an OCR program that
>reads maybe 1200 pages/hour (so it runs overnight usually).  The longest part
>of the entire process is doing the editing, which luckily is fairly minimal
>because the scanner and OCR program are both good.  This is why I usually
>submit 20-30 books a week.  While Pallavi works on university donations, I
>handle everything else - the New York Times bestsellers, books requested by
>people on this list, random donations, etc, etc.

>  Carrie

>  Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>    Donna

>    The reason Carrie can submit 25 books is that as, an inside volunteer,
>she
>    is using an automated high speed scanner which works on the books after
>    the pages have been unbound.
>    This scanner costs thousands of dollars so it is not practical for home
>    use nor would most of us be willing to see books destroyed in the
>process.
>    Hence, while we may scan one book, Carrie can do 10 or more.
>    If Benetech could afford a plethora of these scanners and had the
>    volunteers to operate them, just think of the output that could be
>    generated.


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