[bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 14 books
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:55:56 -0700 (PDT)
No apologies. That's very interesting.
Cindy
--- Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have to be present for the chopping (since I'm
> doing the chopping), and I have to be present for
> the scanning (since some books jam and/or
> double-feed), but not for the OCR part. The output
> from the scanner is a .tif file, with each page of
> the book being a separate picture in the .tif file.
> Then I bring up the ABBYY Finereader OCR program,
> hit 'open image', and select a .tif file called
> booktitle1.tif to put into the batch (let's assume
> it has 212 pages). I select the next .tif file,
> booktitle2.tif, and put it into the batch (and I
> write down how many pages are in each .tif file). I
> put up to 10,000 pages (around 30-40 books) into the
> OCR program, hit the button 'read all', and walk out
> the door. Finereader munches away for hours,
> converting each page from a .tif format to a .rtf
> format. The next time I'm in the office, I select
> pages 1 to 212 from the batch and save the pages
> into a file named booktitle1. rtf, I select and save
> pages 213 to 424 into booktitle2.rtf,
> etc. There are a couple of notebooks with lined
> pages, that are packed with the names and sizes of
> all the books in each batch that we process.
> Now I have a bunch of .rtf files that I can submit
> to the download list. That's why I submit batches of
> books to the download list, instead of dribbling
> them in. I don't want to wait for 20 minutes while
> the OCR program munches on 1 book, I'd rather put a
> bunch of books into 1 batch, and have Finereader
> process them when I'm out of the office.
>
> Sorry for rambling on for so long, but you seemed
> to want to know the fine details.
>
> Carrie
>
> Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh my gosh, 100 pages per minute scanning, 1500
> pages per hour OCR. A 500 page book would only take
> you 25 minutes!
>
> And you don't have to be present for the OCR part?
>
>
>
> Jamie in Michigan
> Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
>
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>
>
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