01-31-2010, 10:19 AM | #16 |
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For straight scanning/OCR'ing. You don't need the full package. The Express version works just fine and cost only $60 US, vs. $400 US for the full package. When I got my 3600, years ago, it came with Sprint 5.0. I bought 9.0 express as a separate package. For most books 9.0 is superior. However, every once and a while, I find books that give 9.0 fits, work better under 5.0. Go figure, so I keep them both....
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01-31-2010, 10:19 AM | #17 | |
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As for the bleed through, the scanner I mentioned has a black top plate which helps minimize bleed through-- but years back I would use a sheet of black construction paper. Still doesn't fix everything with thin/low quality paper, but it helps.+ Edited to add: I had one "scanner" before the one I mentioned-- on my Commodore Amiga, I had this monster kludge (that was a commercial product, not something I threw together) that consisted of a b/w security camera (tube based, not CCD) mounted a foot or two over a platform with circular florescent lights mounted to arms on both sides of the platform. The camera had a wheel with red, green, blue, and clear color filters mounted below it. You would put whatever under the camera to "scan", then scanned 3 times, turning the color wheel each time. All for a 320x240 image-- which could be printed up with my color 9-pin dot-matrix printer! Last edited by ardeegee; 01-31-2010 at 10:34 AM. |
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01-31-2010, 10:23 AM | #18 | |
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01-31-2010, 11:14 AM | #19 |
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You might want to read the reviews of the Opticbook 3600 before buying one. I was ready to buy one two years ago and then read the many sad reviews at Amazon. And from the more recent reviews, I see no evidence that things have improved with it any.
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01-31-2010, 12:01 PM | #20 | |
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01-31-2010, 01:14 PM | #22 |
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I tend to take "customer reviews" with a big shakerful of salt-- people who have problems with a product are much more likely to rant than people with success are to praise. So it can be that almost everyone likes their product-- and says nothing, while a handful that got a defective unit rant about it.
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What are the recomendations on OCR software? I'm not looking for "The Best" (no rich dead relatives that I know of). But something good enough that a little proofreading is all that is needed. |
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01-31-2010, 02:44 PM | #24 | |
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ABBYY is the "best" on the market. it's also the most expensive on the market as well. TANSTAAFL. It is listed to be able to convert raw image files (like TIFF) into OCR'ed files, but, having a 3600 scanner, I never have bothered to try. If you want to use a digital camera, remember, optical wide angle and zoom only. Anything else just cuts out pixels from the area of the image you use, defeating the whole purpose of having a high megapixel camera in the first place. And no matter what way you go, you WILL have to proof the e-book you create, which means you will have to read it, marking every little mistake you see, and fix them.... |
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01-31-2010, 04:36 PM | #25 |
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I've placed an order for the Opticbook 3600. Can't wait to try it out. Some reader comment on Amazon suggests that it comes with the OmniPage software while others on this thread seems to have gotten the FineReader software.
I want to try out to things. Scan a pocketbook and just turn it into a PDF with no OCR interpretation and one where I scan and run it through the OCR and later convert it to mobipocket. I will place both on the Kindle 2 and compare the result. I'm hoping that the PDF-scan will be readable enough so I don't have to OCR scan and Proof-read which seems to take a lot of time. |
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My OpticBook 3600 came with a CD-ROM that had both the OmniPage AND the FineReader Sprint 6 (and other) applications on it.
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01-31-2010, 04:43 PM | #27 |
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If you don't mind "destroying a book", a photocopier that scans to PDFs is your best friend.
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01-31-2010, 04:58 PM | #28 |
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Except many of the people here are talking about rareish/hard to find books-- the last books you would want to destroy. ANY cheap flat-bed scanner can be used for books you are willing to destroy. And better hope that PDF converter is perfect-- because PDF is not a fun format to edit.
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01-31-2010, 05:01 PM | #29 |
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Ardeegee - very very true.
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01-31-2010, 05:08 PM | #30 | |
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Unfortunately, I don't have anything old enough to warrant me scanning them. Plus I'm sure if I do, I could always spend a little and get a digital copy of it without me spending countless hours and hundreds of dollars on hardware and software in order to save a few dead-tree books. |
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