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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > 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.