Heya Jake, I have filed this because when you delete good information someone asks you about it:) -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jana Jackson Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:09 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Scanning with FineReader, long Jake, thank you so much! I will keep this for future reference. <Smile> Jana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 10:35 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: Scanning with FineReader, long > Reposting for Jana...hope this helps, its what showed up in my archive > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:57 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Scanning with FineReader, long > > >> Hi all, and a very happy new year! I was out of pocket yet again, having >> house guests for a week and then there was all that holiday cheer to > share, >> but I have mostly caught up with messages and am ready to present >> scanning with FineReader 101. Excuse me just a minute while I don my >> Mistress of FineReader gear. Ah yes, spike-heeled boots in place...now >> where did I put that whip?? <grin> >> >> My standard disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a software >> developer, a technology specialist, or a student in any formal sense of >> computers. So to all you computer geeks out there, and you know who you >> are, don't get excited when I use lay terms to discuss something instead > of >> geek lingo. Don't make me have to find my whip! >> >> As with other scanning software, it's all in the options and how you set >> them. What I describe below are my typical settings for scanning in >> two-page mode, regular print, straight text, with the book fitting nicely > on >> the scanner bed. Any setting can be changed or tweaked to produce > slightly >> different results, but this is the base from which I usually start. >> >> Open FineReader and go to the tools menu by pressing alt for menus and > then >> T for tools. This will probably put you on the spell-check selection. >> Press O for options and you will find yourself in a dialogue box with six >> groups of settings to muck around with. These six groups are: 1. >> general >> page; 2. view page; 3. scan open image page; 4. recognition page; 5. >> check >> spelling page; and 6. formatting page. Now the fun begins. >> >> In each group of settings above, you have choices to make, check boxes to >> check or uncheck, a myriad of little things that will fine tune the scan > you >> get, and when you learn what they all can do for you, you will find that >> your life as a scanner and the lives of all of our validator friends will >> suddenly become much better. I urge you to really explore all of these >> options on numerous occasions until they begin to make sense and you >> begin >> to understand their purpose. There's nothing that can be done in this >> dialogue box that can't be undone. The worst thing that will happen is > that >> you get a really lousy scan because you chose the wrong combination of >> settings for that particular book. The best thing that can happen is >> that >> you learn your software and produce really excellent scans. >> >> So now I'll go through each group of settings one at a time, giving the >> settings I use for the typical scan mentioned above. Under each group, > I'll >> list the options available and then the settings that I use. >> >> 1. General page: >> A. Interface language, English >> B. Show image during scanning, check box checked >> C. Show tips during recognition, check box not checked >> D. Open last batch at start-up, check box checked >> E. Adjust image to fit printable area while printing, not checked >> F. Show welcome dialogue at start-up, not checked >> G. Enable ABBYY community news channel, not checked >> H. Save button >> I. Load button >> J. Use defaults button >> K. Close button. >> (Note: For now, we'll do nothing with H through K.) >> >> 2. View Page >> A. Appearance item, Uncertain character >> B. None button. >> C. Block frames width, 1 >> D. Show black and white images in image window, not checked >> E. Show black and white images in zoom window, not checked >> F. Show zoom windows scroll bars, checked >> G. Show scale black and white images as gray, checked >> H. Highlight uncertain characters, checked >> I. Show nonprinted characters in window, not checked >> J. Switch to full page mode, checked. >> K. Drafter editor font size, 12 >> L. Close button. >> >> 3. Scan Open Image Page >> A. Scanner twain driver, Epson Twain 5 (of course needs to be set for > your >> scanner) >> B. Use FineReader interface, checked, (very important) >> C. Display options dialogue before scanning, not checked >> D. Scanner settings button (pressing enter here will open yet another >> dialogue box, but one that is pretty important. So press enter and here > are >> my settings) >> I. Image orientation, landscape >> II. Measure units, inches >> III. Paper size, letter >> IV. Brightness automatic, checked >> V. Pictures scanning mode, black and white pictures >> VI. Resolution, 300 >> VII. Pause between pages, checked (and for some reason, this has to be >> checked every time you scan no matter how you save the settings.) >> VIII. Edit box for seconds to pause, 5 >> IX. Show this dialogue box before scanning, not checked >> X. Okay button >> XI. Cancel button >> (Note; pressing okay after setting your options will return you to the >> original dialogue box and back to the D. option of scanner settings > button. >> So now we'll resume going through the third group of options under scan > open >> image page.) >> E. Invert image, not checked >> F. Despeckle image, not checked >> G. Split dual pages, checked (very important) >> H. Detect image orientation during scanning, checked >> I. Convert color and gray images to black and white, not checked >> J. Ask for page number before adding page to batch, not checked >> K. Open image during scanning, checked >> L. Close button. >> >> 4. Recognition Page >> A. Recognition language, English >> B. Edit languages >> C. Auto detect layout, checked >> D. Clear background noise, checked >> E. Look for bar codes, not checked >> F. Auto detect, checked >> G. One line of text per cell, not checked >> H. No merged cells in table, not checked >> I. Do not use user patterns, checked >> J. Pattern editor button >> K. Close button >> >> 5. Check Spelling Page >> A. Stop at words with uncertain characters, checked >> B. Stop at words not found in dictionary, checked >> C. Stop at compound words, not checked >> D. Ignore words with digits and other non-alphabetic characters, checked >> E. Skip prompting for word forms (English dictionary only), checked >> F. Correct spaces before and after punctuation marks, checked >> G. Error display level set before recognition, standard >> H. View dictionaries button >> I. Browse button >> J. Close button >> >> 6. Formatting Page >> A. Retain font and font size, checked >> B. Keep pictures, not checked >> C. Serif, Times New Roman >> D. Sans seriff, Arial >> E. Monospaced, Courier New >> F. Format settings button, (this is another important one, so press >> enter >> and here's what you get) >> I. RTF docs word xml tab >> II. Default paper size, letter >> III. Automaticly increase paper size, checked >> IV. Keep page breaks, checked, (super-mega important) >> V. Keep line breaks, not checked (also pretty darn significant) >> VI. Retain text color, not checked >> VII. Remove optional hyphens, checked (another major time-saver) >> >> VIII. Enable FineReader zoom Window in Microsoft Word 2003 only for word >> xml format, not checked >> IX. With text color, not checked >> X. With background color, not checked >> XI. Save in Word 97 or later format, checked >> XII. JPEG, checked >> XIII. JPEG quality, 50 >> XIV. Reduce picture resolution to, 150 >> XV. Okay button >> XVI. Cancel button >> (Note: after making selections, press OK and you will be returned to the >> regularly scheduled program which was the formatting page.) >> G. Close button >> >> At this point, use control-tab to take you back to the general page where > we >> started this odyssey. Tab over until you get to save. Press enter and > name >> this settings file, preferably something that will make sense when you >> try >> to remember it later. Then tab over to the nearest close button and >> press >> enter. You will now be ready to scan, or you can close out FineReader >> and >> return later with the settings saved. >> >> When you open FineReader again and are ready to scan a book in two-page > mode >> with no extra frills, press alt, T and O to get back to the options under >> the tools menu, control-tab until you land on general page, tab over to > the >> load button, press enter and type in the name of the settings file you >> created, and press enter. You will then need to control tab to the scan >> open image page, tab to the scanner settings button, press enter, tab >> over >> and check pause between pages and tab again to set the number of seconds > to >> 5. Tab to close and press enter, tab to close again and press enter, and >> then you're ready to scan. >> >> Taken all at once like this it might appear a lot to do, but it's really > not >> once you get the settings in place. I've created similar settings for >> one-page scanning for that occasional book that is too large for two-page >> mode, and another one for retaining line breaks for the occasional book >> of >> poetry or some other text where saving the line breaks might be >> important. >> But the one I use the most is the two-page mode settings. The other >> frequent change I make is for paper size. If the book really fills up >> the >> scanner bed, then A4 is a better setting than letter, but I make this >> adjustment for each scan. >> >> Control-shift-K starts continuous scanning and pressing space interrupts > it. >> >> Control-shift-R starts the recognition process. >> >> When you're done with scanning and recognition, and it's time to save >> your >> work, here's how to do it: >> >> Press alt and then F to get to the file menu. Press E to go to the save >> text as dialogue box. This is a baby dialogue box compared to the >> options >> one, so pressing tab will get you through it. Set your options for >> saving >> text as follows: >> >> 1. Filename, type in what you want. The default is Untitled0. >> 2. Save as type, rich text format RTF. (This is crucial if for no other >> reason than to keep the volunteers on this list happy! <smile> >> Seriously >> though, it is the best option and it is the second selection as you arrow >> down the combo box.) >> 3. Save button >> 4. Cancel button >> 5. All pages, checked, this is the second option in this combo box. >> 6. File options, create a single file for all pages, checked, fourth > option >> in the combo box. >> 7. Retain layout, retain font and font size, checked, second option in > the >> combo box. >> 8. Keep pictures, not checked. >> 9. Open document after saving, not checked >> 10. Format settings button, this is a repeat of the format settings you > set >> in the earlier tools menu settings. You can press space here to check > your >> settings, but it's really not necessary. >> 11. Save in, select whatever folder you choose for saving scans, I use >> my >> ebooks. >> 12. List view, let's you select files or folders, but nothing to set. >> >> Once you've made the selections above, tab over to the save button and > press >> space to save. Now you have a lovely scanned book in RTF to submit to >> BookShare. Once you've set these options in the save text as dialogue > box, >> they remain the same until you change them again, so in future, you only >> have to put in the filename and tab over to save. >> >> Happy scanning! I still say FineReader is the best scanning software out >> there! And remember, it's not wise to disagree with the Mistress of >> FineReader! <smile> >> >> Peace and Hope, >> >> Donna >> >> > > >