[bksvol-discuss] Re: advice

  • From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:30:43 -0500

I use Grayscale and 300 dpi, and usually never have a problem with Fine 
Reader and chapter titles unless they are in a truly unrecognizable font.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Silvara" <silvara@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:21 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: advice


Hmmm. What dpi do you use? I use 400 for the most part.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "robert tweedy" <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: advice


> Grace I let Kurzweil do it's paces first and it seems if I change one
> setting to get the page and chapter numbers, it messes it up for the text
> and get the common scanning errors.
> Skype contact bobwichitaks phone 316-524-5454
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Silvara" <silvara@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:34 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: advice
>
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> It sounds like you're using K1000?  If so I always use fine Reader.
>> Occasionally I use Scansoft to scan back cover material. I don't  know if
>> this has been fixed but I had noticed that Scansoft got rid of m-dashes
>> and so I don't use it.
>> I haven't had a problem with Fine reader not scanning page numbers. I
>> play around with setting before starting a scanning project.
>> ***
>> Grace
>>
>> For scanning and validating  tips
>> check out
>> http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/tl.asp
>>
>> For ideas of books to scan check out:
>> the No Book Left Behind AKA
>> Reject list
>> http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/reject.asp
>> Rescan List
>> http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/rescan.asp
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "robert tweedy" <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:46 AM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] advice
>>
>>
>>>I have noticed that with fine reader it doesn't get the chapter numbers
>>>or page numbers but the text is fine but with scan soft it gets
>>>everything. Just currious on which one to use. I have to go to fine
>>>reader sometimes at the end of a chapter to get it right, scan soft puts
>>>the words there and the ones it can't figure out puts them at the bottom,
>>>has anyone seen this? I do fiction so know about booksshare's policy
>>>reguarding page numbers but if they apear I want to keep them hence using
>>>scan soft does the job.
>>> Skype contact bobwichitaks phone 316-524-5454
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