[bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: OT: Kurzweil and Google Books

  • From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:54:25 -0800

Evan,

Kelby is not scanning physical books.  She is trying to OCR already
scanned material.

On 9/9/09, EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When you open the optimize menu, you have two choices: Scan and Recognition.
> You can only choose Recognition if you are keeping images in your scans.
> Let's ignore that one for the moment. If you go to the
> Scan portion of Optimize, you will enter a dialog box that gives you a
> number of things to check. You can check or uncheck whichever ones you wish.
> Some are checked by default, others are unchecked by default. Once you've
> tabbed through to Okay, the optimization will begin. Make sure not to move
> the book until K1000 says, "Optimization complete." Then you can tab through
> the settings and see what has changed. Tab through to Okay again, or just
> hit the Enter key if you don't want to see the settings, and you'll be done.
>
> HTH
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelby Carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:37 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] e: Re: OT: Kurzweil and Google Books
>
>
>>I am very confused about optimization.  I open a Anddf, stop recognition
>>and clic on optimize ...  and nothing happens.
>>
>> Maybe I just need to get used to it; but K1000 really confuses me.
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Date sent: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:59:50 -0500 (CDT)
>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Kurzweil and Google Books
>>
>>>Two things you can do: You can use the Optimization wizard in the
>> Scan menu
>>>and wait for K1000 to try and get the best scan it can.  Or, you
>> can go
>>>immediately for grayscale in the Scan portion of the Settings
>> menu.  That
>>>will very often give you a pretty good result.  The recognition
>> may take
>>>longer, substantially longer on an older system, although I don't
>> think
>>>that's much of an issue these days.  But grayscale will give you
>> good scans
>>>even when other settings will not.
>>
>>
>>>Evan
>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Kelby Carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 9:17 PM
>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Kurzweil and Google Books
>>
>>
>>>> Dear Booksharians,
>>
>>>> I just received my copy of Kurzweil 1000 for personal use.  I am
>> wondering
>>>> if anybody has general tips on scan/recognition settings to make
>> the raw
>>>> scans come out as good and clean as possible.  I am a new user,
>> so I have
>>>> no idea what works and what doesn't.  Any assistance is much
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
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