There needs to be enough white space between the pages. Press the centre of the spine down more so the pages are as flat as possible. Personally, I changed to scanning one page at a time and holding the other page vertical. The scanning is faster than with a flatbed, even when done one page at a time.

David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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> On 20 Jun 2014, at 12:56, Eddie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Can you post it to the list so we can all learn. Thanks!
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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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