[bookshare-discuss] Re: Better Scans?
- From: "Gerald Mackowiak" <gmackowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:19:06 -0700
A question for you Guido, or anyone else that has ideas. My wife and I still
have an old fashioned reading edge. As you know it is a stand alone
machine. We've found it works fine for most of what we want to read. One
of its chief assets is the book edge scanner, especially for getting text
near the bindings of books. A good deal of better OCR software is now
available however, and we are considering movin' on up. Do you know if it
is possible to use the reading edge with improved OCR software, either by
attaching the reading edge scanner to the PC, or by scanning text, saving as
image files, and then converting with the OCR software on the PC?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:32 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Better Scans?
> You need to 'soften' the spine of the book. Try opening the book every 50
> pages or so and slowly forcing the book to open completely. Repeat the
> process until you have reached the end of the book. BAt the end of this
> process you should be able to open the book fairly flat against the
> platen. Remember you always need to keep the middle down flat against the
> glass.
> To ensure you get the entire page put the book sideways. First try with
> the top of the page flush against the rightside of the glass. Try a
> test scan or two. If nothing gets truncated at the bottom of the page, you
> should be fine. Just try with a few different pages in the book.
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> If you discover that text at the bottom of the page is missing or looks
> like garbage, invert the alignment: put the bottom of the book flush
> with the left margin of the scanner glass and repeat the test scan. You
> may discover that the page header is sometimes corrupted, but this is
> likely to be the only drawback.
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> Guido
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> Guido D. Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> IBM Research,
> Phone: (512) 838-9735
> Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> I could use some input on this topic. I have quite a few thick (600 pages
> or more, non-bookclub-sized hardbacks, and my scanner will always chop off
> something when I try to scan two pages at once. I don't see a way to get
> words from the curved inner part of the page. I say that I have these
> books, but they're really my wife's and mine so removing the binding isn't
> an option. What way works best including getting a full-sized scanner. If
> it is the scanner option, could someone recommend manufacturer and model?
> TIA
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