[bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 14 books
- From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:38:53 -0700
And we¹re very lucky to have you!
Lisa
From: susan lumpkin <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:51:31 -0500
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 14 books
What an interesting and informative post, Carie! Thanks both for sharing it
with us and the work you do for Bookshare! Have a great weekend.
Susand
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 9:46 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 14 books
There are times when it seems like I do live there, especially when it's
warm outside (the office is air-conditioned but my home isn't). In fact,
I'm on their employee email list, so I can be informed of when the internal
network is going down for maintenance, that sort of thing.
The scanner rate is about 80-100 pages a minute, depending on the size of
the page, so it doesn't take long to scan a book. The OCR process is what
takes a lot of time (it processes maybe 1200-1500 pages an hour). On
Wednesday of this week, I started an OCR of 28 books, and went in late
yesterday to save the .rtf files in case someone turned off the computer for
the weekend. (This happened a couple of weeks ago, but luckily I was able
to retrieve the batch of books then.) On Monday, I'll submit 30+ new sci-fi
books and a few others. I listed the sci-fi books in a previous email, in
case you're wondering what they are. Anyway, the scanner is a great time
saver. We're very lucky to have it.
Carrie
Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I guess you kind of live at the Bookshare offices sometimes smile
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> But that neat scanner scans so fast that it probably doesn't take long to
> scan a book. I think it is so cool how many books you can scan.
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> Jamie in Michigan
> Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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