[bksvol-discuss] Chat Tonight: Getting The Best Results From Your Scanner

From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:34:12 -0400
Hi everyone. Are any of you looking for help learning to use your
scanner? Are you looking for tips to improve the quality of your scans
so you don't have to do as much clean up while proofreading? Or are
you a proofreader who wants to get a scanner but feel hesitant and a
little confused about how to get started?

If so, please join us for a chat and presentation from CAVI, the Cisco
Academy for the Vision Impaired, to learn about how to get the best
results from your scanner and OCR software. It starts at 6 PM Pacific,
7 Mountain, 8 Central, and 9 PM Eastern. Both Mac and PC users are
welcome. See below for details.

Using a scanner gives people with reading disabilities so much
independence and options in our lives. If you're a volunteer for
Bookshare, you already know that. (smile) We aren't born with innate
scanning skills though, and our first efforts can be a bit messy until
we figure things out. Manuals are long, and they don't often explain
what to do to fix scanning errors in plain English.

I have been a Bookshare volunteer for seven years, and I both submit
and proofread books. CAVI has asked me to do a presentation on
scanning basics and then to provide more advanced tips for people who
are looking for ways to improve their scanning quality. I'll cover
principles that apply to all OCR software, so there will be something
here for everyone. There will be plenty of time for questions, and
there will be a social time after the presentation. You're welcome to
stay and make some new friends.

Here are the details for when and where the event will take place.

Once again, this will all take place Sunday , May 20, at 6:00 PM
Pacific, 7:00 Mountain, 8:00 Central, and 9:00 PM
Eastern, using TeamTalk. TeamTalk is available on the PC, Mac, and
Linux. The server is tt.cucat.org (using default ports), and it
doesn't need a password. If you need to test your audio or need help
configuring TeamTalk, come to the server a
little early, and we'll help you get things going. You can also send a
message to cavi-instructors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or send a Twitter message
to @ciscovision or to my personal Twitter address @plumlipstick for
more information. We hope to see you there.

There will be a full mp3 file of the presentation that you can
download if you can't attend the chat tonight. I'll post the link here
when it is available.

Please share this email with your friends and invite them to join us.
Maybe we can get some people interested in volunteering for Bookshare
once they know how to scan.


-- 
Monica Willyard
Visit my GoodReads book shelf at http://www.goodreads.com/plumlipstick
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[bksvol-discuss] Chat Tonight: Getting The Best Results From Your Scanner

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