[bksvol-discuss] Re: Thanks to good submitters!

  • From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:29:55 -0500

Gary,

Yes, Bookshare has a high-speed commercial scanner with a document feeder.
That's why Carrie mentioned double feeds and jams.  I don't know what the
model is, but I think Carrie or one of the staff mentioned one time that it
is a Cannon and costs something like $5000 or $7000.  Carrie should be able
to tell everyone more come Thursday when she goes in.

BTW, Carrie, when you mentioned double feeds and jams, you  omitted BBs.
<Smile>  For those of you who are new, Carrie told us a story about scanning
a used book she picked up at a sale earlier this year and BBs falling out
when she began the scan.  Someone used the book for target practice.

Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 2:06 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Thanks to good submitters!


You're using a document feeder with that one?

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Carrie Karnos
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:15 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Thanks to good submitters!


  Hi Kaitlyn,

  I'm sorry, I don't remember what the Bookshare scanner is.  I do know that
it will scan a 250-page book in about 2 minutes, assuming there are no
double-feeds or jams.  When I go into the office next week, I'll write down
the make and model, or I'll forget it immediately.  Sigh!

  Carrie

  Kaitlyn Hill <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    Hi Carrie,

    What kind of scanner are you using again? I know you told me at one
point:)

    It's FineReader 7 this is in K1000.

    Kaitlyn :)

    -----Original Message-----
    From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
    Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 6:33 PM
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Thanks to good submitters!

    Hi Kaitlyn,

    Actually it's the scanner and also the OCR program. We have version 5.0
and
    version 7.0 of ABBYY FineReader at the office. 7.0 is SO much better
than
    5.0, it's amazing. The books I submit would be much worse if I used 5.0
    instead of 7.0. But of course the scanner has to do a good job initially
or
    it's useless using any OCR program.

    Carrie

    Kaitlyn Hill wrote:

    Hi,

    I know I have done a couple of Carrie's scans and she does a first
    rate
    job:) It kind of gets back to the quality of the scanner it seems. I
    know
    the one I have should last me a good while but I think my next one
    will be
    up in the commercial level. OH, along with a commercial level
    scanning
    package like K1000:) Can't wait until I get version 10!

    Kaitlyn :)

    -----Original Message-----
    From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy
    Carcione
    Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 10:48 AM
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Thanks to good submitters!

    Recently, I've had a whole string of books to validate where the
    submitter
    did a good job with the scan, so they were way easy! It was such a
    pleasure. And I did about 5 books in a couple weeks, which was also
    really
    nice. I know 2 were submitted by Carrie Karnos, and 1 by Natalie
    Barrett.
    Sorry, I forgot the others. Anyway, thanks to every submitter who
    makes my
    life easy!
    Tracy







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