[bookshare-discuss] OT: Congratulations to Mayrie (spelled m a y r i e)
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:36:09 -0700 (PDT)
Way to go, Mayrie. Congratulations on that impressive number and quality.
Cindy
--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: the book scanning process
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 3:05 PM
> Hi Jamie!
>
> I promise I won't write you a novel. But, trust me, I
> could!
> Laugh. When I scan a book (I've submitted and had
> accepted to bookshare 416
> books as of today, all of excellent quality) I use kurzweil
> 1000. Using its
> optimize scanning feature makes that getting rid of junk
> characters much
> much less of a problem. It chooses the scanning settings
> and recognition
> settings for each book and those optimal settings cut down
> a lot and I do
> mean a lot on junk characters.
>
> That is the first step toward making the book processing
> faster!
> There's more, much much more, but the rest can be time
> consuming and many
> people don't want to do it. But, my suggestion is that
> if you aren't
> currently scanning with Kurzweil 1000 that you consider
> acquiring a copy of
> the program. It has lots of other wonderful features
> besides the optimize
> scanning feature. Okay, enough advertising for Kurzweil
> 1000.
>
> So glad that you have gotten into reading from Bookshare!
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Prater [mailto:jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:52 PM
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] the book scanning process
>
> Hi, I have a friend who has devoted years of her life
> literally to scanning
> many books, mostly Christian and little house type books,
> and she does well
> with what she has. She also doesn't work, so I wonder,
> based on what little
> scanning I've attempted, how in the world does somebody
> get much significant
> scanning done when you have to sit there and feed it page
> by page and listen
> through and weed out lots and lots of garbage characters
> and formatting
> issues? This is why I admire this organization so very,
> very much. Any
> light on this subject is appreciated. Have a blessed day.
>
>
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