Hi Julia,
Two-page mode doesn't help, in my experience. The space in the book
between pages is smaller, as you know, than usual, and OCR tends not
to be able always to distinguish which text should be on each page.
The book doesn't always lie completely flat if you shift the book to
beyond where the spine is when scanning in single-page mode. However,
It seems to me that there is a space about one-quarter or a bit more
of an inch, right up next to the edge of the scanner where the book
gutter (the place where the pages meet) presses into the edge of the
scanner that doesn't scan. So, by pushing the book just beyond the
gutter to scan a page, you're forcing that unscannable spot to be the
gutter of the book, and it doesn't matter much if that part isn't
completely flat.
If the book is a paperback, you can often hold the book open wide
enough that it will be nearly flat anyway. It's, as I said, a bit
awkward, but it has worked for me before. Occasionally I get junk
characters in that icky between pages spot that I have to remove, but
I find removing junk characters, though annoying, and tedious, much
less a problem than inserting text that got cut off.
Sorry for such a long ramble!
Hope it helped a little.
Maybe others have other experiences.
Mayrie
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*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: the unscannable book
Hi Jamie, Mayrie, and list.
Thanks for your quick responses and helpful advice. I should've
mentioned that I have an optic book. How does it help in scanning
these difficult books, besides the one-page mode, which helps with all
books. So, if you put the book so that it doesn't quite line up with
the edge of the scanner, how do you get it to lie flat? Does two page
mode work better if you press on the spine?
I realize that I'm asking a lot of questions, sorry. Julia
On 03/08/2011 6:57 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
Books with little to no margins are so hard because you either get a
dark line in the middle that covers part of the text or you don't get
the text at all. I find the Optic book helps with this a lot, also if
you can press hard on the spine. If not, I find I have to type in the
missing letters or words as I scan which takes a long, long time. Or
send a copy to Bookshare that they can chop and run through their
high speed document feed scanner.
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