[bookshare-discuss] Re: question about scanning
- From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:56:15 -0600
Hi, Monica. I hope you're taking some substantial time--an hour or two at
least--at different times throughout the day to rest. I have some
understanding of how uncomfortable you must feel. About three years ago, I had
viral pneumonia; no antibiotics would work for it, so it had to run its course.
I made rattling sounds when I tried to breathe, and once in the middle of the
night, I woke up and couldn't get air. I put a mustard plaster on my chest,
and it cleared my airway some. Don't leave it on for more than 15 minutes at a
time if you try it because it will burn your skin otherwise.
After fifteen hours, the migraine has finally left. I'm glad because my
stomach was more upset with this one than it normally gets with migraines.
Yesterday I had Kurzweil version 11 installed. When you feel up to it, please
let me know where those settings that you mentioned are located, and then I'm
sure I can find them and set them up. They sound like they would address both
the speed and the accuracy issues. Thank you for the help.
Listen to your listers: Relax and don't overdo it.
Linda Adams
----- Original Message -----
From: Monica Willyard
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:42 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: question about scanning
Linda, I'm sorry to hear about your migraine. Those are no picnic. I can't
remember which program you use for scanning. Is it Kurzweil 9? Or has the cough
syrup gone to my head now? One reason I can scan more quickly in Kurzweil is
that I can set it to warn me if I scan a page that scans at less than 98
percent accuracy. I have turned off the announcement of things like the
recognition progress and orientation. I've replaced the scan complete and
recognition complete messages with 2 different and discrete chime sounds. If I
hear Kurzweil talking, it means that a page hasn't scanned well. If I hear that
warning, I stop moving forward and go to that page to see what's going on.
Sometimes it's just a chapter page or a diagram. Sometimes the scanner has just
taken a flawed picture of the page. In that case, rescanning the page solves
the problem so I can move along again. Using this warning system lets me move
quickly but gives me a chance to fix problems while I'm still at the right
place in the print book. If you'd like to try doing this at some point and need
a little help getting it set up, please ask.
Openbook doesn't have this feature, and now that I've had Kurzweil for 8
months, I'd feel blind going back to Openbook for scanning. I hope they'll add
this feature to the new version of OB that's coming out soon.
Monica Willyard
Linda Adams wrote:
Hi, Maithe. There is no virtue in it, really; I just don't want to go back
through something that I have scanned. When I finish a book, I really want to
be finished! I have this fear that if I straight scanned a book without
proofing all along the way, there would be one bad page somewhere, and I would
miss it somehow even with spell check.
Linda Adams
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