I think a lot of what you are struggling with in scanning has to do with the OCR program you are using. If you can change your scanning settings to recognize columns you may be able to get rid of the problem of merging text from side bars into the main text on the page. I'm using Open Book from Freedom Scientific for my scanning. I keep it set to recognize columns all the time. Often this works, but not always.
Pictures are often simply eliminated in the translation process, perhaps leaving a few symbols in their place. Picture captins will remain, since they are text which the sOCR program will recognize. Any tables or graphs with letters and numbers in them will be recognized and reproduced, but not necessarily in a readable form. There may be times you do not want to recognize columns. For example, if the page you are scanning has a table with columns you wil likely be better off unchecking the "recognize columns" feature. My program also has a feature that can do two page scanning. This way you can lay a book on the scanner and the result will be two pages scanned and translated at the same time without confusion between them. If you have any other questions feel free to contact me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blessings, Tom Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
