I also use the software you mentioned (ZoomText and OmniPage 16). I have been using these for quite a while, but I don't really have anything automated yet.
I have a pretty old scanner, which doesn't have a new-ish driver that works the way I like in cooperation with OmniPage. I usually scan a book with my standalone scanner driver user interface, then batch the image files through OmniPage. I usually proofread them sort-of manually, using high magnification ZoomText when necessary, but mostly letting ZoomText read them to me. I alsu run them through Microsoft Word spell checker.
I mostly scan knitting books, which don't have a strict text-only, one column per page thing going on. I like to have the magnified images for my own reference. Lots of tables also.
- Karen Harshfield At 06:32 PM 4/7/2008, you wrote:
Fellow Bookshare enthusiasts, I would very much like to scan by own books, both for my own use and for submission to Bookshare. I have a fast PC with Zoomtext, a scanner, and Omnipage 16 Pro. I have done some scanning to Text files, and found them to be nearly perfect. I would like to know if there is a place to go to get step-by-steps to use Omnipage 16 Pro to scan in a way that the files are eligible for submission to Bookshare. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Dan Hicks <mailto:danjhicks@xxxxxxxxx>danjhicks@xxxxxxxxx "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -- H. G. Wells
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