Book scanning - Page 3

neoportal · 03-11-2007, 10:08 PM

Hello to Mobileread users!

This is from Snapter team.

First, thanks for your interest in Snapter.

Its main uses are to let you use ur digicam as a makeshift scanner.

Second is to allow you to use to help solve the curvature of the curled book pages when photographing from the top.

It would help improve ur experience considerably by looking at this how to use guide:
http://www.atiz.com/how_to_use_snapter.html

We have tested it quite extensively and hope that it works for most cases if the instruction followed. If that's not the case, we should be able to help solve it with your help by forwarding the images that u had problem to us at snapter@atiz.com

Warmly,
Art.

jackbrown · 04-08-2007, 02:48 PM

I've had excellent results with a combination of the basic Microsoft Document Imaging and Scanning App that comes with MS Office, for image acquisition, followed by Abby Finereader for cleanup, postprocessing, OCR and PDFing.

I scan a book in black and white on a flatbed scanner at school, at 300dpi, then dump the resulting file into ABBY, where I split the pages, then let ABBY automatically figure out the layout; then I let ABBY turn it into a PDF, either leaving the original image on top of underlying OCR text (If I want to keep the original pages) or saving as a pure text PDF file. ABBY is pretty amazing at getting the OCR and layout right with hardly any input from me.

The process is kind of boring (I wish I could afford to pay somebody else to do it) but there's nothing like having all your important texts searchable (on laptop) and portable (on iliad). Too bad the Iliad can't search.

ath · 04-09-2007, 01:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackbrown

I've had excellent results with a combination of the basic Microsoft Document Imaging and Scanning App that comes with MS Office, for image acquisition, followed by Abby Finereader for cleanup, postprocessing, OCR and PDFing.

At first sight this seems excessive work. Is there anything about the scanning function in FineReader that makes it unsuitable to use? Or is it that the MS scanning application is better in doing the scanning in some way?

user · 10-09-2007, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slayda

Sony sells that cute little robot.

were exactly please ?

03-11-2007, 10:08 PM	#31
neoportal Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2007	Your feedback is much appreciated. Hello to Mobileread users! This is from Snapter team. First, thanks for your interest in Snapter. Its main uses are to let you use ur digicam as a makeshift scanner. Second is to allow you to use to help solve the curvature of the curled book pages when photographing from the top. It would help improve ur experience considerably by looking at this how to use guide: http://www.atiz.com/how_to_use_snapter.html We have tested it quite extensively and hope that it works for most cases if the instruction followed. If that's not the case, we should be able to help solve it with your help by forwarding the images that u had problem to us at snapter@atiz.com Warmly, Art.

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04-08-2007, 02:48 PM	#32
jackbrown Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco USA/North Africa	I've had excellent results with a combination of the basic Microsoft Document Imaging and Scanning App that comes with MS Office, for image acquisition, followed by Abby Finereader for cleanup, postprocessing, OCR and PDFing. I scan a book in black and white on a flatbed scanner at school, at 300dpi, then dump the resulting file into ABBY, where I split the pages, then let ABBY automatically figure out the layout; then I let ABBY turn it into a PDF, either leaving the original image on top of underlying OCR text (If I want to keep the original pages) or saving as a pure text PDF file. ABBY is pretty amazing at getting the OCR and layout right with hardly any input from me. The process is kind of boring (I wish I could afford to pay somebody else to do it) but there's nothing like having all your important texts searchable (on laptop) and portable (on iliad). Too bad the Iliad can't search.

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