[bksvol-discuss] Re: Any Difference in OpenBook's OCR Engines?
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:16:57 -0800 (PST)
Evan,
I don't have Outlook Express--at least I don't think I
do. I get my mail at yahoo.com--but yes, my mail shows
that Grace's is an attachment even though the post is
in the main body of he letter and is very readable.
I've stopped paying attention to the attachment
indication.
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, I'll try it out.
>
> Btw, does anyone else's email program say
> 'attachment' when listing mail from Silvara,
> although there is no attachment? No one else causes
> this in my Outlook Express, unless they actually
> have an attachment. I don't know that there's a
> problem, but I'm wondering why this happens.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Silvara
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:46 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Any Difference in
> OpenBook's OCR Engines?
>
>
> Hi Evan:
>
> When I used Openbook I took some time scanning
> pages with different contrast settings. It does make
> a difference. It takes a few minutes in prep time to
> get the best settings.
> Hope this helps.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evan Reese
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:15 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Any Difference in
> OpenBook's OCR Engines?
>
>
> I was just curious if any OpenBook users had
> noticed any difference in the three OCR engines it
> uses. I tried scanning a page or two using all
> three and I couldn't really tell any difference.
> But I've only scanned three books so far, all using
> Fine Reader as the default. But those with more
> experience might be more aware of differences that
> might not show up in a page or two. Even a very
> slight difference that's hard to detect will add up
> to quite a few errors after three- or four-hundred
> pages.
> If I get any responses, and if I see a
> consensus brewing that either omnipage or Recognita
> is better, I will change to one of those. I get
> pretty good results with Fine Reader. But it could
> always be better, and I'll change in a moment if
> more experienced people think one of the others is
> better. If they don't agree, of course, then I'll
> stick with Fine Reader.
>
> Also, another reason I ask is that the book I'm
> reading through is of very high quality. Once the
> preliminaries are over, the text is extremely good.
> It might be better than my OpenBook could do. Of
> the two hardcovers I have scanned so far, they came
> out pretty well, but this might - might - be better.
> I don't know what system he is using, but it is
> very good. It still misses some things, of course.
> It's not perfect, especially those
> beginning-of-chapter first words that no scanner
> seems to be able to get right. But there are quite
> a few pages here with nothing whatever wrong on
> them. I admit, I'm a little jealous. I get perfect
> pages, too, but I don't think I get as many as this
> guy gets. Sure, not all books are created equal, so
> maybe he got an extremely excellent font in this
> book. But maybe I'm not using the best OCR engine,
> or the best settings I could be. I've just been
> using automatic contrast on the books I've done so
> far.
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
>
>
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