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. >> >> >> >>>> --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- >>>> http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html --- >> >>>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To >> get a list >>>> of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the >> subject line. >> >> >>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>>bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get >> a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject >> >> line. >> >> >> >> --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- >> http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html --- >> >> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >> of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >> > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of > available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > -- Soronel Haetir soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.