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From: "Sherry" <>
Subject: RE: [SP] How to copy (scan) small book
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:36:14 -0700
In-Reply-To: <000001c2310e$7d83fba0$e991fea9@qld.bigpond.net.au>


And make sure it's a *good* OCR program and the copy you're scanning is
*perfect*!

I pretty much gave up trying to scan text with the scanner and software
I have. I spend more time doing a thorough proofread and correcting the
strange symbols and "typos" than it would have have taken to just type
up the document!!

I used to have a hand-held scanner (Logitech ScanMan) and it was fine
for scanning small photos (less than 4" long on one side). I never got
got at stitching them together and, again, the OCR was terrible! If
your speed of pulling varies at all......

Hopefully there are some people out there who get better results with
OCR than I do!

Sherry



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lance [mailto:]
>Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 4:29 PM
>
>
>Perhaps you may have more success if you take the book to a
>quality copy shop. Have them photocopy the pages, as they will
>have a copier that will accept books. Then scan the
>photocopied pages with your scanner. You realise that you will
>need an OCR (optical character recognition) program if you
>wish to have the result as a text file? Otherwise the image
>will be just saved as a ".bmp" or ".jpg" format, not quite
>what you are looking for, I should imagine.
>
>Lance

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