[bksvol-discuss] Re: More information on Plustek 3600 scanner
- From: "Jackie M." <xercon@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:38:42 -0700
I went to the website, but it isn't very accessible for those of us using
screen readers. The mouseover links don't have text indicating what they
really are.
- Jackie McCraw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Baum" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:30 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More information on Plustek 3600 scanner
> The new Plustek OpticBook 3600 has a bookedge along one of the long edges
> of the platen. Its not wedge shaped, its just that the platen comes within
> 6 millimeters of the outside edge of the scanner. If you put the spine of
a
> book along that edge, you should get a very good scan of a single page.
>
> The platen is A4 size - that's 8.5 by 11.69 inches. You could use it to
> scan two pages at once, but there would be no reason to expect that it
> would do any better at that than any other letter sized scanner, since you
> would not be taking advantage of the bookedge.
>
> It indicates that a scan takes 7 seconds. My guess is that this is the
time
> to scan the platen (at who knows what resolution), but does not include
the
> return trip for the scanner bar. Nonetheless, that's pretty fast.
>
> All this comes from the web site - we still don't have our hands on one of
> these.
>
> Stephen
>
> At 02:19 AM 9/3/2004, you wrote:
>
> >Mary, I am not sure what we are missing. I was interpreting the scanner
> >as having the platen flush to both the left and right edges, which would
> >allow for better single-page scanning of largish hardcovers, rather than
a
> >wedge-shaped platen which would allow for true two page scanning. As the
> >description is rather poor, we will need to wait until someone receives
> >one of these things.
> >
> >Guido
> >.
> >
> >Guido D. Corona
> >IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> >IBM Research,
> >Phone: (512) 838-9735
> >Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
> >http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >09/01/2004 06:47 PM
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> >
> >Guido,
> >I beliefe I'm spacially challenged, but in reading this description, I
> >don't see how one would do two page scanning with this scanner. The
> >description sounded as if they are expecting the book spine to be at the
> >scanner edge. Yet, if I do two pages at once, the book's spine is
> >certainly not near the edge; its in the middle, more or less, of the
> >scanner, running across or down the length, depending on whether its a
> >mass market
> >paperback or a larger trade paper or standard hard cover book that is
> >being scanned. If I have to scan one page at a time with this, I'm
> >underwhelmed, to say the least. It would be good for those larger books
where
> >you can't do two pages at once on a regular scanner; but that's about it.
> >What am I missing here?
> >Mary
> >
> >
> >
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