Hi. When I start scanning, I always have kurzweil optimize the settings for
me to pick those settings that give the best ocr for that particular book.
There's such a wide variation in text quality from book to book. Optimize
is an option right under the scanning menu and drops you into a dialog where
you can have kurzweil try various resolution settings, brightness settings,
threshholding settings, and try using different scanning engines to
redcognize the text. Many times version 9 wants to use "scansoft" either
the accurate or the fast engines rather than fine reader. I also let it
choose the text quality because it can set it for degraded or draft
especially for copies of articles not eligible for bookshare.org. The
optimization takes some time, maybe 5-10 minutes and I do it for the first
page. My summer job requires me to scan and edit some specialized reports
and I'd be lost without optimizing the settings in Kurzweil. It's going to
be quite a while before I come across something general enough to scan for
bookshare what with work and school *smile*. makewants to use
Cheryl Fogle MA Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University of New Mexico
I always thought Kurzweil was set to RTK by default. It always has been
since version 6, anyway. Of course, you can change that...Anyway, take care.
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Hi Dave,
Fine reader is Kurzweil is set to by default. Is this considered the best out there? Asking b because I am fairly new at scanning.
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Hi Cindy,
I haven't seen any responses to this message, so . . .
The OCR package you are using is most likely Abby Fine Reader. This is the
most popular OCR engine used by Openbook, Kurzweil, etc. You can also use
it, as do Donna, and perhaps others on the list do, in its stand alone
version.
The Twain you are referring to is the interface between the scanner and
computer, or in other words, the driver that allows the scanner to
communicate with the computer. When the developers were designing this
method for a standardized, cross platform, method for sending data from a
scanner to a computer they must have been in a droll mood,
naming it by the acronym TWAIN for Technology Without An Interesting Name.
Dave At 01:55 PM 6/10/2005, you wrote:I have an Epson 1660, and I think when I looked it up ln line I found the OCR was ABBY. (I thought it was Twain and someone told me that wasn't an OCR program, so I went googled; I can't find any indication in the papers that came with it).
Cindy
--- Jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy > what OCR program do you use? > > Jim B > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 10:30 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating and > Paragraph Marks > > > > -Thanks, Kellie. I don't think I made myself clear > > before. > > > > When I scan, my OCR puts paragraph marks at the > end of > > each line, keeping the line lengths the same as in > > the book. When I validate before sending missing > pages > > to people, or when I validate books that where the > > submitter seems to have the same kind of OCR (I'm > > about to start one soon like that), then I > manually > > delete the p mark as I go along. It's no big deal. > > Where I have a problem is sometimes when I want to > > indent a section because it is a long quote and it > is > > indented in the book, or when I want to indent the > > first line of a paragraph. Something in the > original > > formatting causes the whole paragrapah to move. > I've > > tried checking the formatting choices and other > > things. Finally, the only way I can get it right > is by > > putting a paragraph mark at the end of the > preceding > > line. Then I can do what I want with the next > line. I > > doesn't happen very often in a book, though, so > I'm > > glad to know that one stray p mark now and then > won't > > disturb anyone. smile > > > > Cindy > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >
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