[bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted 25 books

  • From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:04:52 -0800 (PST)

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.


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