[bksvol-discuss] Re: scanning magazines
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:05:58 -0500 (EST)
Rik,
I don't know if this is helpful, because it doesn't really deal with the
garbled text issue, but I've had some success scanning seed catalogs and
harp magazines by adjusting the brightness, and scanning one page at a
time. It's not perfect, but it's very understandable.
Are you the Rik James from Montana? I used to be Tracy Masterson, long
ago in my single life, from Great Falls.
Tracy
> Recently there has been some mention of RFB & D. I have been a member for
> a
> number of years, and it was invaluable when I was in school, and I still
> will check there and often find a book that is available nowhere else.
>
> I only recently purchased the Valley Vibe special cd player to read the
> Daisy Plus cd books. It is currently being offered at signifcant discount
> as they roll out the upgrade player, I think called Victor Wave. It may
> have some great new upgrade features. But for me, this week as I've been
> learning to use the Vibe, I'm liking it pretty well. Not as fast or
> powerful to navigate as reading e-text with a Bookport.
>
> Some reading materials such as academic things, it is good to have the
> well-trained human reader. Especialy where there are text blocks,
> diagrams
> and other things that no matter how fancy the scanning technology gets,
> will
> unlikely ever replace the visual reader.
>
> Often these days, I am wishing I could read many of the trade magazines to
> which I really find essential in my work reviewing the music world. And
> scanning magazines has thus far proved to require too much garble text due
> to ads and text boxes, etc. If any other Bookshare has a method or
> knowledge of where to find or a way to produce magazines, I'd like to
> know.
>
> Rik
> d28rik@xxxxxxx
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