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slayda · 02-26-2007, 11:32 AM

Well I did it again but this time using an HP flat bed scanner, an old hard back book and non-destructively. The book was just the size to scan the fully opened book, 2 pages. With ABBYY you can automatically separate the two pages and orient them properly.

The scanning was slower & probably would not work as well with a newer, or thicker, or larger book. But it had the advantages that I didn't spend the time de-paging the book and my pbook is still in reasonably good shape in my library.

I also found that scanning in gray scale, rather than black & white resulted in fewer OCR errors. Even though the area near the center, since it still curved slightly away from the scanner, caused some added OCR errors.

All things considered, both the flat bed HP experience and the Fujitsu page scanner experience were bot satisfactory. However I would not do this hust for any book. It will be used only for my favorite "keepers".

Thanks for the encouragement and interest from mobilereaders.

02-26-2007, 11:32 AM	#15
slayda Retired & reading more! Posts: 2,764 Karma: 1884247 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Alabama, USA Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One	Second scanned book Well I did it again but this time using an HP flat bed scanner, an old hard back book and non-destructively. The book was just the size to scan the fully opened book, 2 pages. With ABBYY you can automatically separate the two pages and orient them properly. The scanning was slower & probably would not work as well with a newer, or thicker, or larger book. But it had the advantages that I didn't spend the time de-paging the book and my pbook is still in reasonably good shape in my library. I also found that scanning in gray scale, rather than black & white resulted in fewer OCR errors. Even though the area near the center, since it still curved slightly away from the scanner, caused some added OCR errors. All things considered, both the flat bed HP experience and the Fujitsu page scanner experience were bot satisfactory. However I would not do this hust for any book. It will be used only for my favorite "keepers". Thanks for the encouragement and interest from mobilereaders.