[bksvol-discuss] having trouble scanning a book
- From: "Kerri Kosten" <wvusuperfan22@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:16:00 -0500
Hi All:
I am wanting to scan a book to both read for pleasure and submit to bookshare.
The book is called Die for me by Karen Rose. It is a really great thriller
about a detective who finds a bunch of buried dead bodies and has to
investigate them and then he and this woman Sophie fall in love. It looks
really good.
My problem is that it is a tiny, mass market paperback book with really thin
pages almost like a phonebook. I bought it new so the print should be okay
however I can not get it to scan right. I am using Kurzweil 11.02. I have the
brightness to 73. have tried using Dymanmic which I use and works great for
bigger paperbacks. But, it either gives a poor confidence level or it has a
bunch of errors on the pages. Like not junk characters but where it messes up
words and such. I have tried placing the book in all kinds of positions on the
scanner but it still won't scan right. I am holding it flat as it will go.
The only setting that seems to work is Grayscale but I hate to use it because
it takes so long to recognize.
I also have another book which is already in the collection but I am comparing
the scans of these two books. It is called the Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux
and it is another big Mass market paperback. The only difference is that it
has thicker pages. So, thinking the print was different on the 2 books, I
asked a sighted person but they said the print sizes were the same. The only
difference between this book and the other one is this book does flatten out a
little better on the scanner. However it does fine with Dynamic scanning.
So, I was wondering if there was anything I could differently to get Die for me
to scan right with Dynamic since The Summerhouse seems to be fine. What is the
difference between Grayscale and Dynamic? Is grayscale made more for like
thinner paper or something or is there a reason it might be doing better with
Die for me then Dynamic is? I know there have been all kinds of books
submitted to Bookshare probably mostly paperbacks or the mass market smaller
kind so I just wondered what I might be doing wrong.
I will use Grayscale if I have to but do not really want to.
Thanks so much for your help and sorry this is so long.
Kerri
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