02-21-2010, 03:19 AM | #61 |
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I find that with cheap scanners, it's the mechanical bits that break. I've had a couple in which the plastic gears have stripped their teeth, and hence the scanning head has stopped moving. The LED lights that modern scanners use should last pretty much indefinitely.
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02-21-2010, 12:49 PM | #62 |
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The lamp went dull and then burnt out at approximately 75-80 hours of use for me. I'll certainly never buy an Opticbook product again. Especially since it is far faster and at similar cost to build a dual-camera based scanning system.
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02-22-2010, 03:07 AM | #63 |
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Has anyone heard of or tried Snapter. A software for turning a picture taken with a digital camera to look more like the output from a flatbed scanner.
http://snapter.atiz.com/ |
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Best cheap solution: a sharp knife and a Fujitsu Scansnap.
Used together with a decent OCR program, it's about 45 minutes to the first (and pretty good) draft of your ebook. Hands on time about 30 minutes. My bookshelves are becoming thinner by the day. |
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02-22-2010, 02:35 PM | #66 |
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Abby Finereader not able to open multiple images
I was just about to go ahead with my scanned book pages saved as .bmp and load them into Abby Finereader for OCR conversion.
It turns out that Finereader can only open 1 image at a time. Luckily I found that you can go back into Book Pilot (software for opticbook 3600) and start a "Batch Processing" that will send all the pictures you choose to Finereader and then on to word. The whole process with under 400 pages took 10-15 minutes. |
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Finereader should allow selection/opening of multiple images at a time, and it allows click-and-drag from a Windows folder to the images panel.
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Agreed. Except, in my case I have a Canon DR-2050C, which is equivalent. Duplex scanning at the hardware, supported by ABBYY FineReader, and it's fast, real fast.
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That's the one I was thinking of getting; how well does it work for book scanning? Does its default scan software allow for custom page sizes, and does it easily scan to multipage tiff?
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As for the software, I haven't used it since I have ABBYY FineReader 10, which kills just about everything else for OCR duties. It's astounding how accurate FR can be with a good scan. I do have the bundled software, which is OmniPage Pro, I believe, and can try that out. |
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