[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning:

  • From: "BlindGeek" <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:47:47 -0800

Is there an OpenBook 8?  I just checked the Openbook Downloads section of FS's 
website but could only find updates to get it to 7.02 (with a few build numbers 
added on that elude me for the moment, but it's the version I already have).  
Am I looking in the wrong place?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Guido Corona 
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  Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 6:58 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning:



  OpenBook v6 is very old.  Since then there have been significant advances in 
accuracy of text recognition.  You may still be in time to obtain a low cost 
upgrade to Openbook 8.  You may want to contact Freedom Scientific at 
800-336-5658. 
  In most cases, current OCR packages have little problems with title pages.  
Conversely, in olden days title pages were. . . terrible. 

  G. 
    

  Guido Dante Corona
  IBM Research,
  Human Ability & Accessibility Center,   (HA&AC)
  Austin Tx.
  Phone:  512. 838. 9735.
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most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
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  I lay the book on the scanner with the back cover facing left and the front 
cover facing right. But every Time I lay a page of the book like that on the 
scanner especially the title page it comes out jibberish like abunch of letters 
and a bunch of periods. I use a epson scanner as well. I use use version 6 of 
openbook. Could that be why the title page comes out unreadable? 
  Is there a version of open book that can recignize text better than version 
6.0 of open book? 

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