[bookshare-discuss] Re: Better Scans?
- From: "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:36:20 -0500
Hi Allison,
One thing you might want to do is check to be sure that the driver your
scanner is using is the best one. This sounds complicated, but it's really
not hard and only ever needs to be done once. What you do is go into the
scanning settings and look for a combo box that says "Scanner source." That
will be a list of the drivers available on your system. If you only have one
then there's nothing to be done. If there is more than one driver in the
list, choose one and hit enter. Then scan a page from a book with that
driver. Examine the ranked spelling results and recognition stats, and see
what the results are. Next, go back and pick a different driver and then
scan the same page again. Look at your spelling and recog stats again.
Repeat with each driver, and when you've finished see which driver gave you
the best results. Choose that driver, and save the scanning settings. Then
go in all your settings files, pick the correct driver, and resave them.
This way you'll be sure that your results will be the best possible.
As others have said, it's good to check your brightness settings with each
new book you scan. If there are errors where, for example, M is recognized
as III or H is recognized as II your brightness may be too high. If the
errors are the opposite, groups of smaller characters being recognized as
one blob character, then the brightness might need to be turned down.
Hth, and welcome to Minneapolis.
Kellie
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