02-23-2010, 06:49 PM | #76 | |
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When I have a good rythim going, I can do typical paged books at 300dpi at about 10 seconds per "side" (meaning from the time one scan starts to the next scan starts, including time flipping pages) on my Opticbook. |
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02-23-2010, 08:04 PM | #77 | |
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02-23-2010, 09:48 PM | #78 | |
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What kind of camera are you using? I'd love to see a photo sometime of your setup..400 pages in 20 minutes? WOW! lol I'm impressed with what they've done, but don't know if I could pull it off! To everyone who have made the leap and purchased the Optibook: I'm still wanting one - just hoping you will continue to share how it's running for you- |
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02-24-2010, 04:42 PM | #79 |
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Can anyone suggest the best lens choice/ settings for a DSLR set up.
Im scanning quite heavy image based pages and ideally want to end up with a 600dpi image of each page(so a TIF at about 6mb) Thanks |
02-24-2010, 06:35 PM | #80 | |
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Yeah, if you have smaller text, a higher dpi is good. 300dpi is fast, but when turned up to 600dpi (the recommended for small text), it is noticeably slower. Still, feeding through a stack of pages and duplex scanning is the ultimate in ease. |
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02-25-2010, 03:08 AM | #81 |
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I scan one page in 10 seconds and then I have to flip the book to scan the other page. So before page-turning I would be up to 20 seconds. The upside is that I get very good quality scans with hardly no OCR-errors at all, so getting a good scan result will save you time on the proof-reading.
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02-25-2010, 09:47 AM | #82 | |
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03-01-2010, 01:22 PM | #83 |
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I started scanning my second book and it turned out much harder than the first one. It came as a paperback with tight margins making it hard for the scanner to get a good result, I ended up cutting the book and then feeding the pages to the scanner one by one, doing this I could also ignore the page rotation in the software. I'm about half way through.
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04-21-2010, 05:28 PM | #84 |
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I tried to do a keyword search, but I didn't find this in any posts, so forgive me and clue me in to any thread where it's discussed.
Anyway, I just saw an ad for something called the VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand portable scanner. It looks pretty interesting, but the tech/specs don't mean a lot to my non-techie brain and it looks like the file format is jpeg. So, I'm wondering if the would be a decent thing to use for book scanning for my Sony. It's in the most recent Bed, Bath & Beyond flyer for $99 (which would be less with one of their coupons). Anyone know anything about this or have an opinion to share? http://video.bedbathandbeyond.com/v/...anner-gadgets/ http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...y=#ReviewStart |
04-21-2010, 05:35 PM | #85 |
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It might be an OK way of getting data into and OCR programme, but the quality of the ebooks you get out of it might be a product of how good the OCR is - and how patient you are at cleaning it up.
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04-21-2010, 05:38 PM | #86 |
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04-21-2010, 05:42 PM | #87 |
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04-23-2010, 04:10 AM | #88 | |
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I've used a Canon 50mm @ F/4 and a Canon 100mm @ F/8 But I think every modern lens-camera system is more than enough for the job. If you've got distortion problems just widen your field of view and keep the paper in the center of the frame: it's where lenses do their best. |
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