Can you post it to the list so we can all learn. Thanks!
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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:38 PM
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Subject: [VICUG-L] OCR with a Camera
Hi All,
I'm interested in scanning tips for people who use the Pearl, the HoverCam,
or some other camera with their OCR package.
After a couple of years of indecision, I finally broke down and bought the
HoverCam T-5 V for use with Open Book. It arrived yesterday. I've set it up,
and it's generally working well.
The reason I bought it is that certain books are tough going on flatbed
scanners. Sometimes when I scan in two-page mode on traditional scanners,
one of the pages scans beautifully, but the other is a mess, so I have to
rescan the book, pressing down on the spine really, really hard, and even
then, some books do well while others do not. After scanning one of these
books twice with a flatbed, I thought, "I may as well try a camera."
I've scanned a few sample pages from the book. The results are better in
that I can read most of the text on both facing pages. The problem is that
they're being scanned as if they were a single page; in other words, Line 1
from Page 2 is followed by Line 1 from Page 3; then we go back to Line 2 of
Page 2 followed by Line 2 of Page 3. Since everything is all run together in
a single paragraph, it's hard to know exactly where one line ends and the
other begins, so the post scan cleanup is way more work than seems
reasonable.
I know Open Book is set to two page mode, so I'm thinking the problem has to
do with the way I'm holding the book open. This is what I'd like advice or
tips on.
thanks for any suggestions.
ciao
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