Hi Gary, The inhouse OCR program is ABBYY FineReader version 7.0. I'm waiting for 8.0 to be bought and installed so I can try re-scanning some books with tiny print. Carrie Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: What's the ocr program? (curious) ----- Original Message ----- From: Carrie Karnos To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:30 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books Mike is exactly right. In the Bookshare office, there's an industrial-strength chopper which makes it very easy to despine books, a scanner that zips thru about 100 pages a minute, and an OCR program that reads maybe 1200 pages/hour (so it runs overnight usually). The longest part of the entire process is doing the editing, which luckily is fairly minimal because the scanner and OCR program are both good. This is why I usually submit 20-30 books a week. While Pallavi works on university donations, I handle everything else - the New York Times bestsellers, books requested by people on this list, random donations, etc, etc. Carrie Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Donna The reason Carrie can submit 25 books is that as, an inside volunteer, she is using an automated high speed scanner which works on the books after the pages have been unbound. This scanner costs thousands of dollars so it is not practical for home use nor would most of us be willing to see books destroyed in the process. Hence, while we may scan one book, Carrie can do 10 or more. If Benetech could afford a plethora of these scanners and had the volunteers to operate them, just think of the output that could be generated. 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. --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.