I'm sorry, did I say openbook? I use openbook at school for documents and such. I actually use kurzweil at home for scanning books. Sorry about the confusion, but I'm sure that these settings will still apply.
Thanks Nimer J Nimer M. Jaber The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender via reply e-mail, and delete the material from any computer. Website: http://www.empowertheblind.org Phone: (720) (251-4530) Monica Willyard wrote:
Hi, Nimer. You're asking a question I love to see on the list because it means someone is learning something new. What version of Openbook are you using? That will help us answer your questions better. I'll share my experiences with you, and there are others who use Openbook daily who might lend a hand too. I was an Openbook user for over 15 years before switching to Kurzweil last year. So my experience is with version 7 and earlier. I think much of what I'm about to write can be used in Openbook 8 as well. One thing I can tell you that will help you get better scans in general is to turn off the despeckle setting that Openbook has turned on by default when you install it. Especially if you are using a paperback book, despeckle seems to cause more problems than it solves. It also helps to turn off an option that says white on black scanning. This setting is good for newspapers and such, but it's bad for most books and should be turned off by default. When I used Openbook, I set it for auto-contrast and turned off the language analyst too. I saved these settings as the default settings so I wouldn't need to adjust them every time I ran Openbook. I consistently got the best scans from these settings, though I did have to adjust the contrast on certain books if the auto feature didn't work the way I wanted. I hope this will help you with your scan. If I haven't explained it well, please ask for a better explanation. I'm looking forward to seeing your book in the collection soon. (smile) Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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