[bksvol-discuss] Re: Learning to Scan Books

  • From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:18:32 -0600

Hi, Mike!  Welcome back, and congratulations on your new purchases! <Smile>

As you work with the K1000 manual, you'll learn a lot of things, but I'll give you a few pointers here. First of all, you'll want to place the book sideways, with the right margin of the two pages pointing toward the top of the scanner. You'll want to align the book against the right or left edge of the scanner. Do not try closing the lid. Instead, press down on the back of the book. You'll need to hold it there with one hand while scanning. Otherwise, you will definitely miss text.

In the Settings dialog box, i believe it's on the scanning settings page, you'll want to check the mode for scanning two pages at once. you will also want to play with the threshold and brightness settings. A good tool to use, once you've set your software to scan two pages at once, is the otimization feature found in the scan menu. You can tab through a dialog box and decide which settings you want K1000 to optimize. Then K1000 will scan the same two pages over and over, determining the best recognition settings as it goes. You will be notified when optimization is complete.

One more important thing. You will probably want to save your setting in a particular file when you have changed them. I have a settings file called Bookshare, which I can bring up for scanning books. Then if I use the optimization feature, I will save those settings under a different file name, usually something relative to whatever book I am working on. The commands for retrieving and saving your settings are found in the Settings menu.

I'm sure that others will have more complete suggestions for you, but that should get you started. Happy scanning!

Jana

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:44 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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