Just the thought of destroying a book makes me cringe. For example, I would never do this to a Bible. Using a flat bed scanner, you can scan most books without destruction.
--- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 2:16 PM Subject: RE: Requesting Suggestions On Scanning A Large Paperback Book WithThe KNFB Reader Hi Richard, I agree that while KNFB Reader is an awesome app, there are projects where a scanner solution is better just as you’d rent a moving truck if you want to move rather than making 20 trips with the car. The ideal solution would be to have a scanner with automatic document feeder and to destroy the book so you can just run the pages through the scanner. I have a Fujitsu Scansnap IX500 and while it would only scan to PDF, it is so super blazing fast and does automatic souble sided scanning. If I had a paperback book with 300 pages I could probably scan that with that scanner in about 5 minutes and then just use Openbook to recognize the single PDF file. I guess now that Jaws does OCR on entire PDF documents you could even open the PDF in Adobe Reader and tell Jaws to do the OCR. It would be interesting to see if that works. What is the book you are trying to scan, Eileen? Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 12:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Requesting Suggestions On Scanning A Large Paperback Book WithThe KNFB Reader I'd recommend waiting until the next update comes out that should include retaining the format of the page. The standscan might be the best choice of stands to attempt this, but in reality, I'd recommend using a computer with OpenBook or Kurzweil software for that size project. If you have a Bookshare membership, you could request that book and even offer to send the print copy to a volunteer willing to to scan the book ... Good luck, Richard Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it. 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