You need no additional documents to teach you how to scan except, perhaps, a
compendium of tips from, I think, Kelly Pierce of all people. You have to
understand only a couple of things:
Scanning isn't a science, it's an art. You have to play around with your
brightness level somewhat. It will be slightly different with each scanner
and each book. The optimization feature will help you zero in on where your
sweet spops will be.
2. Leave the lid up and try to align your book to either top or right side
of the platten. The Fine engine likes portrait slightly more than
landscape. Portrait has the top at the back of the scanner. With the book
squared off, hold the sucker down, but try not to smash the glass. You
cannot control positioning any near as well with the lid as you can with
your hand.
3. I would avoid keeping auto-corrections on when your book has slangor
dialects. It will make a hash of what you have unless you know where the
corrections temp file is stored and read through it.
4. Make sure you're on the K1000 list. Good luck.
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.
