[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about a paperback I'm trying to scan

  • From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:36:22 -0500

Yes. Recognition does take forever using grayscale. I've never been certain 
why this is, but I've noticed it to be true.
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From: "Jim and Flo" <jfpardee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about a paperback I'm trying to scan



If nothing else works try softscan with grayscale. Recognition will
take forever so use image scanning only.


Jim



At 09:45 AM 9/23/2009, you wrote:
>Try softscan at 60 on the brightness and see what it does.
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>From: <mailto:solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>solsticesinger
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>Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:30 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about a paperback I'm trying to scan
>
>Hi, all.
>
>For the first time since I've had my opticbook 3600, it's giving me
>trouble with a paperback book. I optimized several times, and these
>are the settings I got. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest changes
>that could be made to improve the scan. I'm getting very low
>competence levels, sometimes 94 and below.
>
>Static thresholding is being used. Resolution is 300. Brightness is
>42. Speckle removal is disabled. Text quality is draft dot matrix,
>and recognition engine is finereader 8.1.
>
>If anyone has any ideas how to improve this, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
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>Eclectic Collection: A Celebration of Women In Music, each Wednesday
>evening from 7 to 9 eastern.
><http://www.radio360.us>www.radio360.us
>
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