[bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's submissions
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:56:54 -0700 (PDT)
Ditto --except for the baking of the cookies part. I
no longer cook or bake--just eat. smile
Cindy
--- "Julie & Miss Mercy, avon representative"
<mercy421@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Carrie. I wasn't the one asking about this, but
> I, for one, am
> interested in how you do things there so I
> appreciate the detail you put
> into this message. We all appreciate everything you
> do! Maybe, come
> Christmas, I'll bake some batches of cookies and
> send them to you guys so
> you can have some snacks while you're waiting for
> some of those files to
> process! And I don't say that jokingly, either. I
> just might do it. Thanks
> for all you do! Take care.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrie Karnos" <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:13 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 14 books
>
>
> I have to be present for the chopping (since I'm
> doing the chopping), and I
> have to be present for the scanning (since some
> books jam and/or
> double-feed), but not for the OCR part. The output
> from the scanner is a
> .tif file, with each page of the book being a
> separate picture in the .tif
> file. Then I bring up the ABBYY Finereader OCR
> program, hit 'open image',
> and select a .tif file called booktitle1.tif to put
> into the batch (let's
> assume it has 212 pages). I select the next .tif
> file, booktitle2.tif, and
> put it into the batch (and I write down how many
> pages are in each .tif
> file). I put up to 10,000 pages (around 30-40
> books) into the OCR program,
> hit the button 'read all', and walk out the door.
> Finereader munches away
> for hours, converting each page from a .tif format
> to a .rtf format. The
> next time I'm in the office, I select pages 1 to 212
> from the batch and save
> the pages into a file named booktitle1. rtf, I
> select and save pages 213 to
> 424 into booktitle2.rtf,
> etc. There are a couple of notebooks with lined
> pages, that are packed with
> the names and sizes of all the books in each batch
> that we process.
> Now I have a bunch of .rtf files that I can submit
> to the download list.
> That's why I submit batches of books to the download
> list, instead of
> dribbling them in. I don't want to wait for 20
> minutes while the OCR
> program munches on 1 book, I'd rather put a bunch of
> books into 1 batch, and
> have Finereader process them when I'm out of the
> office.
>
> Sorry for rambling on for so long, but you seemed
> to want to know the fine
> details.
>
> Carrie
>
> Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh my gosh, 100 pages per minute scanning, 1500
> pages per hour OCR. A
> 500 page book would only take you 25 minutes!
>
> And you don't have to be present for the OCR part?
>
>
>
> Jamie in Michigan
> Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
>
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