02-17-2012, 09:31 PM | #136 |
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Krystl, yay! (I need to just write a blog post about this, maybe.)
I haven't noticed any missing pages. I haven't read through every single book I've had scanned (they scan faster than I find time to convert), but I've converted several dozen and had no missing pages or problems. |
02-18-2012, 04:17 AM | #137 |
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If only someone in the UK would start offering this sort of service. Nobody knows of one yet do they?
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Anamardoll, why yes, you should
...and perhaps I should get myself in gear and start playing so that I can get this figured out. I am not against my PBB, and at first the thought of cutting books took some getting used to, but I plan on mixing and merging but there are just those books from college that are simply taking up space and unusable for research, as i cannot access them--such books are perfect for this! Ab, about your experience with bookscan--have you noticed missed pages or so? As Anamardoll's process works with pdfs (without OCR unless she finds out otherwise) both companies seem to fit. Right now I am setting up a serious plan of conversion, etc. |
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What format are the scans in? pdf? do their pdfs convert well to epub or mobi?
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02-18-2012, 04:38 PM | #140 |
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They're image based PDF's so you'd need to run them through OCR software like ABBYY Fine or Readiris to get them to a text based format like HTML, RTF or Doc and then do your conversion from there.
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02-18-2012, 07:26 PM | #141 |
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This. And ABBYY is $170 a license. It's not something that Calibre or whatever can automatically convert for free, I'm afraid.
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02-18-2012, 08:16 PM | #142 |
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all of a sudden, that $1/book doesn't sound so cheap after all.
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All the inexpensive scanners I've bought or used at work came with OCR software, most often Textbridge, plus an interface software, usually Paperport. I've found Textbridge to be quite accurate. A customer sent us a clean, clear PDF (that had not been made from a Word file but was an image), and Paperport pulled it up okay and Textbridge OCR'd it very nicely.
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I can't claim to know the difference between the two versions. Usually there isn't a lot of difference in the OCR engine, they may even be identical at times. Instead the full version comes with networking or collaborative tools, handles formatting and graphics more exactly, perhaps with the capacity to schedule jobs, support for paper fed scanners etc.
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I have not noticed any problems with 1DS either though sometimes their scans come in as slightly faded for some of my books (but not bad and the text within such blocks OCR's correctly as well from my random checks). |
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Back with my report about BOOKSCAN.US
Fast and accurate scan and unbeatable support. I mention cheap? (Fast = Book Received 02-15, List Sent 02-16, Scanned 02-17, Processed 02-17, Uploaded 02-17, Dropbox Notify 02-17) 300 pages per dollar, then increments of 200 pages per dollar, auto scan old books in color (yellow pages), files are named with human names (like Tarzan Alive_Philip J Farmer_312.pdf) and they are small - 312 pages = 32 MG. Also they use Google Docs + Dropbox, so is easy to integrate with one workflow. examples: work list received from BOOKSCAN.US -> page scanned -> page OCR (ABBYY 11) -> in work -> Conclusion: I am very pleased with the result of collaboration with BOOKSCAN.US. If you live - like me - in the EU, the cheapest way to send books to U.S. is the M bag, ask at the post office... |
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