When I was scanning State and Revolution by V.I. Lenin I had a devil of a time with it and I was pretty new to scanning books then. The margins, especially the margins next to the spine, were nearly nonexistent. Finally I managed to scan the whole book by scanning one page at a time and checking it carefully before I went on to the next one. Most often I had to scan each page two or three times before it came out right. I was very fortunate that it was a fairly short book. The techniques I developed with it still effect how I scan a book. Even now I scan two pages at a time and preproof each two pages before going on to the next two. Sometimes, if I start finding a lot of errors, I will still switch to one page at a time.
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 6:57 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: the unscannable book
Books with little to no margins are so hard because you either get a darkline in the middle that covers part of the text or you don't get the text at all. I find the Optic book helps with this a lot, also if you can press hard on the spine. If not, I find I have to type in the missing letters or wordsas I scan which takes a long, long time. Or send a copy to Bookshare that they can chop and run through their high speed document feed scanner. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: All This Hell by Evelyn Monahan See everything I've read this year at: www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html
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