Hi Sara, that was a very nice and encouraging message, you all have been
very kind. I have Open book 7, and a Visioneer One Touch 8100 scanner,
Windows Xp. I thought tat Omni Page was the better OCR but now I find Fine
Reader reads better, I guess it depends on what you are scanning. Is that
enough information for you or do you need to know more about my system?
Again, thanks to every one for your encoraging words.
Patti
Dear Lord, help me to become the kind of person that my dog thinks I am.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Feeling like scanning, but don't know what to
scan?
If you are afraid of scanning and submitting let us provide some help. That
is one thing we all seem to agree on. :-)
If you tell us the software, tools, and methods you use to scan and/or
validate books detailed specific advice can be given, then you can decide
whether what works for others will also work for you.
Pictures do result in a garbled mess sometimes, but usually you will not have to pick text out from the picture mess. You can usually identify it for what it is and just delete the glob of garbage. If you simply can not face doing that task let the validator know how much you have or have not edited, and that you are available if they have questions or need pages rescanned, by writing that in the comment field at the end of the submit form. There are people willing to take on editing when they know that the person who submitted the book really cares about it, and let's them know what they are getting into. Usually scans don't come out that bad, so why not see how it works for you. Sometimes the OCR software is even kind enough to recognize it is trying to make text out of the impossible and gives up before making garble out of the pictures. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
