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pholy · 03-08-2011, 04:08 PM

My Opticbook3600 software saves page images in png format. I think that or tiff is recommended for OCR purposes, as jpg is a lossy format that doesn't do well with sharp edges, if I recall correctly. It takes me about an hour to scan a 250 page book, and less than five more minutes to do the OCR. I save both so that when I come back and proof the OCR text I can look at the page image to figure out the bad conversions. I've found that ABBYY cheap edition works best with grey-scale images, not b/w - I've never felt the need to make any manual adjustments to the scanned images.

03-08-2011, 04:08 PM	#2
pholy Booklegger Posts: 1,801 Karma: 7999816 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch	My Opticbook3600 software saves page images in png format. I think that or tiff is recommended for OCR purposes, as jpg is a lossy format that doesn't do well with sharp edges, if I recall correctly. It takes me about an hour to scan a 250 page book, and less than five more minutes to do the OCR. I save both so that when I come back and proof the OCR text I can look at the page image to figure out the bad conversions. I've found that ABBYY cheap edition works best with grey-scale images, not b/w - I've never felt the need to make any manual adjustments to the scanned images.