[bksvol-discuss] Re: junk characters

  • From: "GenePoole" <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:10:59 -0800

It's flat, binding and all. Happens with single pages too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: junk characters


> GP,
>
> When you say the book is flat on the scanner, are you
> exerting pressure on it or just laying it flat,
> perhaps with the cover on it? If the latter, that
> isn't enough, as I found out when I was new.
> Apparently the cover is just a dust cover. One has to
> press on the book, snas cover, especially at the
> binding, getting the pages near the binding as close
> to the platen as possible. Sometimes, if the book is
> wide and one's hands aren't large, while pressing the
> binding the other edge of the book isn't getting
> enough pressure so the junk characters occur. The only
> solution I know of is to have hands that are large
> enough to apply equal pressure to binding, middle of
> book and other edge of book. grin.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- GenePoole <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > No, like I said, I'm using finereader 8. Sorry.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:18 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: junk characters
> >
> >
> > > I forget, are you a Kurzweil user?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of GenePoole
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:14 AM
> > > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] junk characters
> > >
> > > Is there a decent way of eliminating or greatly
> > reducing junk characters
> > > during a scan? It seems no matter how flat the
> > book is on the scanner, I
> > > always get 1's and i's and j's and brackets in the
> > oddest places. And big
> > > chunks of white space at the ends of lines. Ideas?
> > Thanks. Oh, I'm using
> > > finereader 8 with 300 resolutionand manual
> > brightness adjustment.
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