[bksvol-discuss] Re: Learning to Scan Books
- From: "Tiffany H. Jessen" <tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:00:25 -0500
I don't know if it's recommended by many others, but I personally do not
ever close the lid when it's in use. In order to not cut letters or words
off of the inner ends of lines you'll have to push the book's spine tightly
down on the glass anyways, so the closing of the lid is just one more thing
for you to contend with.
However, in order to protect the glass from scratches dust and other things
I do of course close it after I'm done.
Another good thing you can do is to use the optimize option in the scan
menu. When using this feature, you hold the book down and it will scan the
same page over a few times and it'll pick the best scanning settings for
scanning that particular book.
Neither option is necessarily essential for a good scan, but I personally
find better results these ways..
Tiff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:44 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Learning to Scan Books
> I'm back after a hiatus of several weeks now armed with K1000 and an Epson
> Perfection 4180 beginning the learning curve on just how to scan anything
> and eventually books for the BookShare collection.
>
> I know that Shelley and several others of you routinely borrow library
> books for scanning and, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how one
> places the page properly on the plat, closes the lid, and all the rest
> without tearing the book apart.
> What do I need to know that is particularly unique to scanning books as
> opposed to documents which seems to be the assumption of the K1000 manual.
> Any suggestions folks can make, including resources to look at, would be
> greatly appreciated.
> I hope over time to be able to at least come close to the high scanning
> levels of many of you now that I, based on comments here and on the
> Kurzweil website, probably have one of the 2 top ocr packages and a highly
> recommended scanner to go with that package.
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