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by Vidar
04 Dec 2021, 03:12
Forum: Scanners and Build Threads
Topic: Low cost Chinese scanners
Replies: 7
Views: 4318

Re: Low cost Chinese scanners

I say stay away. Picture quality is horrible for our purpose. Think high end "surveillance camera". And it only works through the supplied software as far as I could see, which was some clunky and limited software. And I got a really high scanner with better specificationshttps://www.bangg...
by Vidar
23 Nov 2021, 23:45
Forum: Cameras and Electronics
Topic: Scanning with Xiaomi Mi 9 but bad(bend) results, what camera can I use?
Replies: 4
Views: 4305

Re: Scanning with Xiaomi Mi 9 but bad(bend) results, what camera can I use?

I will suggest a Canon G10. It's old, but can be easely found on ebay. You you don't need more pixels than it has for book pages and OCR. It's the newest and best compact that can be tethered og give a live vewfinder on a Windows PC through PSRemote or some free software found on Canons site.
by Vidar
02 Jul 2021, 23:09
Forum: Scanners and Build Threads
Topic: PVC pipe scanner with 100 degree platen
Replies: 31
Views: 25918

Re: PVC pipe scanner with 100 degree platen

I will just mention that by using rather extremely slow shutter speeds, like four tenths of a second, one can get pictures using much less light
, and as a side effect, much less reflections. And perhaps combine that with a rather big aperture and rather high ISO. I'm using Canon G10 and PSRemote.
by Vidar
06 Jul 2019, 05:02
Forum: "Destructive" Scanning
Topic: Please recommend paper cutter
Replies: 6
Views: 9274

Re: Please recommend paper cutter

I doubt the heavy duty cutters are as bad as you think. It's easy to focus to much on negative reviews and there are alway people that love to complain. How can the makers sell any if they are so bad? Blades to dull, but can be sharpened up agin. Not much about "destructive" scanning on th...
by Vidar
19 Dec 2016, 20:49
Forum: "Destructive" Scanning
Topic: Cutter
Replies: 4
Views: 46323

Re: Cutter

I'm currently using a small scissor with extreme cutting power, something similar to this https://www.amazon.com/Joyce-Chen-51-0620-Unlimited-Scissor/dp/B000684DUO/ref=sr_1_30?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1482169174&sr=1-30&keywords=scissors#Ask It is probably better than what you u...
by Vidar
12 Mar 2016, 03:03
Forum: HELP
Topic: Page numbering, good/bad, & how to Abbyy it?
Replies: 1
Views: 3660

Re: Page numbering, good/bad, & how to Abbyy it?

Look at Tools-Options--Read --Detect structural elemens and make sure that 'Headers and footers' is not ticked. I think it is ticked by default.
by Vidar
12 Nov 2014, 21:44
Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
Topic: ABBYY...is anybody using it?
Replies: 4
Views: 6585

Re: ABBYY...is anybody using it?

Well, I upgraded to ver 12 from ver 7 some time ago and agree it is a bit unstable. It was fine but a bit slow on an older Vista machine. But on my current 8.1 machine I have had a couple of issues. At one point the program couldn't find the "language file" so I couldn't do anything and ha...
by Vidar
13 Nov 2012, 01:46
Forum: HELP
Topic: Brand new to making an ebook and need help
Replies: 13
Views: 15988

Re: Brand new to making an ebook and need help

After extracting a jpg from the pdf and rotating, and cropping a little I end up with a 459x758 (0.35MB) file and that's way way to small for OCR. It is still possible to obtain a half-decent result from such a small picture, but that means you have to open it in a photo editor, enlarge it 500% and ...
by Vidar
26 Oct 2012, 12:29
Forum: HELP
Topic: Getting Abbyy to Recognize Chapters/Divisions
Replies: 4
Views: 6457

Re: Getting Abbyy to Recognize Chapters/Divisions

Well, when I saved in Abbyy ver 7, I choose "text and pictures only" in "Formats Settings". "Pictures" means pictures on the page, not the whole picture of the page. There's is other options , "pictures only" or pictures over or under the text which preserves ...
by Vidar
24 Oct 2012, 12:57
Forum: HELP
Topic: Getting Abbyy to Recognize Chapters/Divisions
Replies: 4
Views: 6457

Re: Getting Abbyy to Recognize Chapters/Divisions

Are you saving directly to mobi or epub in Abbyy? I use ver 7 and it can't, but probably the newest ver 11 can. Anyhow, if it cannot do a proper job of it, that's just to bad. I save to pdf and open that in Caliber. It doesn't cause any problems so you could try that.