Re: Scanning Tips
- From: "Paul Rozario" <pekak62@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:20:25 +1000
Hi Linda
Cate uses OmniPage Pro (can't remember which version) to scan documents
which are then saved in the Word format. Screen Reader is Windows Bridge
2000 (probably still the best screen reader out there and still well ahead
of Jaws).
OmniPage can cope with columns well and so can Windows Bridge.
Hope this is of some assitance.
Paul Rozario
Melbourne
Australia
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Scanning Tips
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 06:01:31 -0700
Hello,
Does anyone have suggestions for better scanning columns on pages? I've got
Kurzweil Version 10.1, and even this does a bad job with columns as far as
I'm concerned. Thanks for any help anyone can give.
Linda Gehres
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Kent Stein" <dkent5817@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Scanning Tips
>
> I've sometimes prepped a book for scanning by completely covering
pictures
> with Post-Its. The Optacon is a great help with this.
>
> Debbie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:50 AM
> Subject: Scanning Tips
>
>
>> Because I am a Braille transcriber by profession, I use the
>> scanner and the Optacon together very often. I thought I would share
with
>> you some ways in which you can use your Optacon to help make scanning or
>> photocopying easier. If you don't use a scanner, you might want to share
>> some of these tips with friends. I have arranged them so that each one
>> shows the problem, the reason, and the solution which we Optacon users
>> can
>> do without sighted help usually. I'll limit this message to three common
>> situations. Let me know if you want any more posts like this.
>>
>> PROBLEM: THE SCANNER ISN'T PICKING UP ANY PAGE NUMBERS:
>> REASON: In some print documents, page numbers appear in the
>> opposite color from the rest of the text. They are also often surrounded
>> by a square or circle. The scanner will often not pick these up. The
>> location of page numbers has also changed. In many documents, the page
>> number is not in a corner. It is often in the middle of the top or
bottom
>> line and sometimes it is located in the middle of the page in the left
or
>> right margin.
>> SOLUTION: It's best to determine in advance if the page numbers
>> are going to be a problem. Open the book or document to somewhere in the
>> middle and search for a page number. If you can't find one after using
>> the
>> Optacon on several pages, try again using diffferent adjustments on the
>> Optacon including the invert switch, the zoom lens, and the threshold
>> knob.
>> For users without an Optacon, it's best to ask someone sighted not only
>> where the page numbers are located but what color they are.
>>
>> PROBLEM: Every page in this book has a stupid border around it.
>> REASON: The book or document has been deliberately scan-proofed by
>> the publisher. Slabs of color in strategic places are not just a
>> decoration. They serve the purpose of obstructing a scan or photocopy by
>> causing these devices to miss top and bottom lines of print, headings
and
>> other truly necessary elements. This is to prevent companies and schools
>> from making multiple copies of material instead of purchasing it.
>> SOLUTION: If you must scan a document with a thick border on every
>> page, be sure to carefully check that the top and bottom lines of each
>> page got included in the scan. If you are enterprising and find that the
>> thing is not scanning well, take some strips of white paper and lay them
>> on the scanner glass to correspond approximately with the border. Then
>> lay
>> the page to be scanned on top of these. It may take a little
>> experimenting
>> but soon you will be scanning your pages with all the print, and no
>> gibberish from the decorative borders.
>>
>> PROBLEM: THIS BOOK IS FULL OF PICTURES.
>> REASON: Visual appeal.
>> SOLUTION: The Optacon user definitely has the advantage here.
>> Pages with pictures can make a scan infinitely slower and often full of
>> unnecessary gibberish and errors. For these reasons, using your Optacon
>> to
>> examine eah page is well worth the time. If every page containing a
>> picture places it in the same location, e.g. the top half of the page,
>> most scanning programs will catch on to this after scanning several
>> pages.
>> You might, at the end of the scan, go back and re-scan the first couple
>> of
>> pages to get a better result. To speed up the scan, or if the pictures
>> are
>> on a different place on each page, you can use a piece of plain white
>> paper cut to the needed size. Place this paper on the scanner glass.
Then
>> place the page to be scanned on top. Check your scan to be sure that you
>> got the first couple of lines. If it's easier, you can use tape and
>> position the paper over the picture write in the book.
>>
>> THESE PROBLEMS AND A WHOLE LOT MORE, MAKE ME GLAD THAT I HAVE AN OPTACON
>> TO HELP ME SCAN.
>> Catherine
>>
>>
>>
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>> -Catherine Thomas
>> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
>>
>>
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