[bksvol-discuss] Re: reward for upgrading software
- From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:35:39 -0700
IT does seem that the quality of scans depends more on the skill of the user
than the software and hardware. I know I am getting much better scans now
than when I first started.
1. This change is because of my understanding of the K1000 software.
Learning about settings and correction features.
2. What settings work with my scanner. IN general 300 DPI seems to be good
in most cases but I have found I can increase the accuracy rate at 400 DPI .
After an afternoon of experimentation I am finding that a brightness of 75
percent does the best. I tested these settings on several different books.
Kaitlyn
Healing Practitioner
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to
be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run."
Henry Thoreau
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 9:13 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: reward for upgrading software
To the extend that you can mess up a book by poor use of your software, or
an inferior copy, or poor positioning, you're right. Unfortunately, proper
positioning, excellent copy, and even topflight equipment won't make up for
second-rate software.
The ocr engines happened to have gotten vastly better at recognition between
the first Kurzweils and what's now out. In fact just between k1000 v.7 and
8 there was a significant jump in accuracy. From Fine engin 5-6.
----- Original Message -----
From: Noel Romey <mailto:ner@xxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 9:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: reward for upgrading software
How could one varify what version of software they were using? I
could for
example say I was using k1k v10 where in theory I might have v8.
What is
Gestavo going to do, come to my house, and be the version police and
check
my computer to see if I have the right version so he can give me a
million
dollars in credit and in the process and as extra payment, square
dance with
me and my dog? Also, how do we know that a book's quality can be
improved
only with the upgrading of said software. For instance, if I'm
readin g a
book, and Gestavo comes up to me and accidentally drops an ice cream
cone on
my ook I've got open, kurzewil v13 won't help the scanning accuracy.
It's
true that an increase in software version could possibly help and
make the
process quicker to validate, but in my opinion the way you scan
something
either makes or breaks the scan, not the software version.
Just my 2 cents.
Ner
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E.
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 3:43 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] reward for upgrading software
Could bookshare perhaps have a reward policy for those submitters
who
upgrade.
To be elligible a submitter would have to have previous submissions
accepted to bookshare and be a member of bookshare. Perhaps a
month's
extension to membership would be possible. I am trying here to get
folks
using the best software possible so that the quality of scans on the
step 1
page improves over time. New features in upgrades of products make
this
more possible.
Bookshare would benefit because it takes less time to validate a
book free
of scanning errors. Books would move more quickly into the
collection.
E.
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