Hi Amro.
I might just do that, thanks for answering my questions. Take care and happy
reading.
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Hi Ibrahim,
I’m not sure I’m afraid. I haven’t used this service. I either use Jaws
normally to read or convert to text to speech using Balabolka on my machine. If
I do try their audio conversion I will give feedback. But why not drop Philip a
line, he is pretty responsive and as I said willing to discuss your specific
needs. Their address is support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. You could tell them you
heard of them from me, and that your circumstances are quite similar to mine. I
guess Philip has learned a little more about what we require from the couple of
books I’ve done with them. If you have any other questions I’m happy to help
where I can.
HTH.
Amro
On 31/01/2021 07:17 pm, Ibrahim Gucukoglu wrote:
HI Amro..n7 ֦z hi ˤ z _ 祊 l 0 m n7
Thanks for your explanation, sound like you do some pretty weighty reading
there my friend *smile*, just one more thing, do you know how they produce
audio books? They describe this service on their website but don't give much
more info and there are no samples on the website for me to listen to.
Thanks.
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Hi Ibrahim,
Yes, they do non-destructive scanning to preserve the originals, and they
have options for yellowed pages - old books. Though I haven’t had the need to
use such services.
I do use Kindle but not all books I read are available in e-format
unfortunately; that would’ve made life that little bit easier! Example:
Before European Hegemony by Prof. Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod. Few of the books
I read are not your everyday read, others are older books you see.
For novels and pastime reading I use Audible.
Hope that answers your question.
Best,
Amro
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I've had a look at their site, I've got several print game manuals and
strategy guides now sadly long out of print but very rare and collectable.
Do you know if they can do a non-destructive service where they return these
items to sender? These are collectors items so I wouldn't want to have them
destroyed. Also, if you don't mind my asking, why do you choose to send
books you purchase in print form rather than downloading said books from
services like Apple Books or Kindle?
Thanks, Ibrahim.
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That’s precisely what they do, Barry! You post to them the material you need
digitising be it books or documents, and also you can by the book online and
have it shipped to them directly saving on postage cost and time. That’s
what I did with the latest book I bought from WHSmith. They offer
destructive and non-destructive scans. You can either only scan to image,
scan and convert to searchable PDF (that’s accessible PDF to us), or go all
the way and get back your book in both accessible PDF and Word formats. And
they do conversion to audio as well, but I haven’t tried that as I’ve both
my trusted Jaws and Balabolka if I need to do that.
Also, they can run OCR and convert to Word any digital material you have.
And there are more things they can do; it’s all on their website.
For example, one service I found extremely helpful is page numbers and
headings and sub-headings removal from the scanned version of a book.
Jaws is not intelligent enough to skip reading these, and I personally find
Jaws reading them distracting, especially in ‘Say All’ reading mode. Though
I understand that the possibility of removing these depends on where they
are located on the page, but Philip and his team can advise on that.
The thing is, I have ReadIris 17 Corporate edition; a good OCR programme,
and I tried ABBYY Finereader for a month, but couldn’t achieve the same
results even with books that were already in PDF image format. Maybe I
didn’t persevere enough, or because of my lack of experience, but frankly
with their very reasonable prices I might as well save myself the bother and
leave it to the experts as they say. And I wouldn’t know where to begin with
removing page numbers from the scanned image!
And ah, they do OCR in many different languages, I’m going to try doing my
next Arabic book with them and see how they fare.
Best,
Amro
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them, I'm guessing by post. Do they turn it into digital text?
Cheers
Barry
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Hope this is fine to post, but I’ve used an online shop to scan some books
and I was really happy with their service I wrote this below review on
their website. Thought some of you might find this info helpful as most of
us require these services.
‘I am in constant need of book scanning and OCR services. Digitize My Books
<https://www.digitisemybooks.co.uk/> has done the job to a very high
standard, professionally, and in a timely fashion. And more importantly,
they were willing to discuss my particular requirements, offer solutions,
and suggest the best course of action. For instance, their page number
removal service is noteworthy. All this done for a really competitive price
and with a pleasant manner.
This is an online shop with your local shop feel! Thank you Philip and
team. Highly recommended.’
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