Okay. I've done some playing around with FR8 this
weekend. I'm using an
Epson Perfection 1660 and I've chosen the FineReader
interface option for
scanning. I also went through the set up options
and read the help files.
It's amazing what you can learn like that! <big
grin> I unchecked
everything they said might slow down the scan and
everything that looked to
be unnecessary since I only want text and will do
the editing in another
program, but it's still very sluggish. The really
strange thing is that it
gets slower with each page scanned. So the lapse
between scans for the
first page will be 15 seconds, then 22 seconds, then
28, then 35, then 40.
I'm not sure how slow it will get because my
patience run out long before we
get there! I've never had this happen with any
scanning software.
I then went back to FR7 and unfortunately got the
same results. All this is
with my laptop, but it has a lot of memory and is
usually a pretty fast
computer.
The other thing I don't like about FR8 is that it is
saving each page
scanned as a file in my ebooks folder. This is
happening even though I
checked the option in the save dialogue to create
one file for all pages and
am not even saving it as a batch file when I'm done
scanning and saving. I
think FR7 did something like this, too, but it saved
it somewhere in the
FineReader manager and I just had to go in
periodically and delete the file
so it could start all over again.
I wanted to go back to my desktop to check on the
setting options I used
before, but can't get into it. It's a long story,
but the end result is
that I can't access anything on my desktop for now.
Does anyone still have the last message I sent out
about setting up
FineReader for scanning? Of course, my copy of that
message is on my
on-strike desktop.
I'm determined to get to the bottom of all this. I
like FR too much to give
up on it yet.
Peace and Hope,
Donna
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Pratik patel
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 8:28 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More FineReader
testing
Donna,
Under FRPro's Scanning options, which interface are
you using? It will
typically ask you to use iether the original
application (i.e., the
scanner's interface) or the Fine Reader interface.
What scanner are you
using? with my trial version, I have not
encountered that particular
problem. In fact, a book scanned with a gray-scale
and 400 DPI setting
scans faster with the same scanner than it does with
either K1000 or
Openbook.
Pratik
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Donna Smith
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:32 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] More FineReader testing
Hello to those of you who are playing around with
FineReader. I currently
own FR Professional version 7.0, but am testing
version 8.0 on a trial
basis. I've started scanning a book tonight, and
can't figure out why it is
scanning so incredibly slowly. I think I'm using
the same settings I use
with FR7, but the lapse between pages is
interminable, and I don't even have
the box checked to pause between pages! Usually, I
check this box and tell
it to pause for 5 seconds. Any ideas?
The resulting scan is good except for treating the
headings like columns and
ending it with a section break continuous. The text
of the book is
beautiful, though. Of course, I get beautiful text
with FR7 without the
other problems, so if this doesn't get better soon,
I will be saving myself
the cost of the upgrade.
I'm very interested to hear what others are
experiencing.
Peace and Hope,
Donna
