Hi, Lisa. I can hear your frustration. I was in the same boat for a
long time. Nobody on this list started out knowing how to get great
scans. I don't use Finereader, but I know a few people who do. In
fact, our own Carrie Karnos uses it and may have some tips to
share. For a start, there is a short tutorial on Jake's website at
http://www.jbrownell.com in the area for Bookshare links. I'm not
sure if I kept the message about Finereader, but I think Donna wrote
the page on Jake's site too. If this doesn't help you, will you
please let me know either here or in private mail? I will write to
my friends and ask them about optimizing Finereader to get good
scans. My friend Pam still makes my scans look like an
amateur. (smile) I will ask her how she sets hers up.
Monica Willyard
On that note, some of us just haven't gotten good at scanning. Christmas time, I got a scanner and a copy of FineReader. I had saved an email from a while back that Donna had sent, giving a tutorial on how to best set up Finereader.
But for whatever reason, my scans never come out good at all. I'm using an Epson scanner, a model that was recommended by many bookshare users. But still, I cannot get a good scan, no matter what I do. I know it isn't a problem with a scanner, or the program, because I've let a friend or two scan a few things (not books though) and they say it looks beautiful. So, I'm probably doing something wrong. I haven't submitted any of my scans, because that's how bad I think they are.
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