[bksvol-discuss] Re: Dan Beaver's Volunteer Bio
- From: "Dan Beaver" <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:49:00 -0400
Hi Stacy,
Yes, FineReader does work with Jaws. I am still on Jaws 10.
FineReader is an OCR package. My scanner did come with a promo version. I
purchased a newer full version though. I am using FineReader 9. I
purchased v 9 because it supports scanning of multiple pages in the same
session and also supports scanning pages that face each other and will split
them out as separate pages automatically. These 2 features speed the
scanning process tremendously.
I would say that you probably can use your system with Jaws and Finereader
and MS Office. However, with only 1 GB of ram you may find it runs quite
slowly. If you can find the spare money you might want to add another gb.
When I use MS Office and do my cleaning/proofing I find it necessary to have
the settings such that I can see many control codes in the documents with
Jaws. I am thinking of page breaks, paragraph markers, linefeeds, column
markers,section breaks. You will not want to turn on display of
non-printable characters. this makes Jaws see a dot/period for every space
and lots of other non-printable characters. It becomes very much confusing
in this situation.
I hope this is helpful. If you have other questions just send a note and
I'll respond.
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From: "Stacey Robinson" <staceyr75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 7:31 PM
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dan Beaver's Volunteer Bio
Replying to myself.
Dan, what is fine reader? Did it come with the scanner you bought?
I'd like a way to scan things for personal use but cannot aford a program
like Kurzwiel 1000 or open book.
Does this fine reader software work with jaws?
Also, my laptop only has 1 gb of ram and a small harddrive (60 gb I think)
could I get a scanning sollution for this setup?
I'm running jaws 11.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stacey Robinson" <staceyr75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 6:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dan Beaver's Volunteer Bio
> Dan,
> I don't always do well reading manuals, (don't always comprehend
> everything) can you giv me tips (off list if you want) on proofreading
> with jfw 11 and ms word 03?
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 5:02 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Dan Beaver's Volunteer Bio
>
>
>> Team,
>>
>> What a remarkable group this is! The latest bio I have recieved is from
>> Dan Beaver below.
>>
>> Scott Rains
>> Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
>> ________________________________________
>>
>>
>> I have been a volunteer for Bookshare for several years. I first
>> purchased a membership because of needing some of the technical books
>> that Bookshare offered. After approximately a year I decided to give
>> back to the community by helping to add more books to the collection.
>>
>> I purchased a very plain and normal Epson flatbed scanner for the work.
>> It and the Fine Reader software I purchased have served me very well in
>> doing the scanning.
>>
>> I am blind and have been so since the age of eight years. I use Jaws and
>> NVDA as my screen readers. I do my Bookshare work in MS Office for the
>> most part.
>>
>> I feel very fortunate to have been the first blind individual to have
>> worked my way through the BS in computer Science degree program at Utah
>> State University. That struggle prepared me very well for facing
>> challenges through out my career. I graduated and gained employment with
>> IBM and was an IBMer for 30 years. My years at IBM helped me learn and
>> develop skills that have served me well in the scanning and validating
>> effort. Being detail oriented is important in this endeavor.
>>
>> Over the years I have validated many books and have submitted a large
>> number of books which I scanned. My wife has scanned books and asked me
>> to submit them. She prefers to work behind the scenes.
>>
>> One of the largest group of books we submitted that are now in the
>> collection are the Boy Scout Merit badge booklets that teach the skills
>> necessary for achieving the rank of Eagle in the scouting program. this
>> was done in order to support a young man we are very close to in his
>> efforts to earn his Eagle. It was fun working along side other
>> volunteers in our community who helped with this project. It was also
>> fun helping those volunteers to proof read the scanned booklets and to do
>> the cleanup.
>>
>> When the project was complete we had spent 514 hours and 22 minutes
>> scanning, cleaning and submitting those books to Bookshare. My wife put
>> in over 200 hours herself on the project.
>>
>> Unfortunately I lost my job and have had to focus intently on finding a
>> new job. This has made it nearly impossible for me to spend time
>> scanning and proofreading over the past 15 months. I hope very soon to
>> jump back into the game and complete my personal project of submitting
>> the rest of the "Work and the Glory" series. That in itself will take me
>> several months because the books are very large. I also am planning to
>> do the "Kingdom and the Crown" series.
>>
>> Some other books we have submitted include murder mysteries by Anne
>> Perry. those were very challenging with all the Victorian era English
>> dialect involved.
>>
>> We also submitted several books by Steven R. Lawhead. Three of those
>> were his version of the Robin Hood story. Very different than your
>> generally accepted story of Robin Hood.
>>
>> I agree with the comments of at least one other volunteer. they said
>> that validating or else scanning and doing the initial cleanup of a book
>> helps to learn more from that book than at any other time. Indeed, I
>> have learned more from the books I have validated and submitted and have
>> grown more threw that process.
>>
>>
>> Thanks Bookshare for making this opportunity available to all of us out
>> here. A precious thing is more valuable when it is held by its makers.
>>
>> Dan Beaver
>>
>>
>>
>>
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