[bksvol-discuss] Re: Two-page Scanning
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garypet130@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 04:04:28 -0500
That's what I'm finding. It seems like two-page is easier on my hands than
trying to hold the book just right. The recognition numbers seem better. I
could deal with a couple hundred pages, but the next one has over 640 pages.
As much as I don't want to destroy a book, there's a point where I don't want
to destroy me either.
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:34 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Two-page Scanning
Unfortunately, I’ve had to do parts of these mass market books with close
margins in one-page mode, and it’s doable but it’s a bit of a pain.
You have to hold the book so that the second page, the one you don’t want to
scan, is just slightly over the glass. Then you have to press down pretty hard
to make sure you get the text right at the spine of the first page.
Placement is critical here. If the book is too far over the edge, you’ll get
junk characters from text on the second page. If it’s not far enough, you’ll
still lose text from the first page if the margins are really close. You may
have to rescan a page once or twice before you’re satisfied as to quality.
I avoid scanning this way as much as I can because it’s stressful on my
hands; more stressful than pressing a book down in two-page mode, and much more
stressful than simply holding the book against the edge of the scanner in
one-page mode when margins are decent, which is most of the time, fortunately.
Evan
From: Gary Petraccaro
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 10:06 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Two-page Scanning
I've had to do 3 mass market-sized paperbacks recently. None of them came
out at all well in single-page mode. I'm using K1000 V.13.04 and a Plustek
3600 scanner. When I asked someone to check the margins, they told me that
they usually went close to the binding. How do you do a book like that in
single-page mode? Where do you have to keep the border of the scanner to see
to it the lines come out? Just letting the book hang over doesn't seem to do
the job.
Thanks.
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