[bksvol-discuss] Re: having trouble scanning a book
- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:23:39 -0500
Hi Kerri.
I'm not a K1000 expert, but try going to settings then recognition submenu
and press enter, tab till you hear "the text is expected to be." Normal is
the default. Arrow down once and it will change to degraded. This has
worked beautifully for me without changing other scan settings.
HTH.
Donna
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kerri Kosten
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:16 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] having trouble scanning a book
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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