Correct Sent from my iPhone 12 Pro!!!
> On Dec 29, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And I wonder how I put in 8 to 10 hours of work each day after doing the > errands around the house and the sleeping and eating, but then of course some > people may sleep and eat a lot 😱 > Everybody has to decide what they do with their time and I'm sure Richard > felt his time was well spent scanning and reading this book. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: December 28, 2021 10:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Voice Dream Scanner scanning a book > > I agree Gordan. > > I didn't mention how long it took, he assumed a lot. > He is completely wrong. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gordon > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 5:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Voice Dream Scanner scanning a book > > Totally uncalled for. > > On 12/28/2021 6:30 PM, Anthony Vece wrote: > > Well, I’ll tell you what Rich that’s really a stellar stellar stellar job > > that you took on. I can’t imagine spending that much time doing all this. I > > mean I have to eat I have to sleep I have to pray and do errands around the > > house. I can’t understand a lot of people who have entirely too much time > > on their hands glad you’re satisfied with your results but, sooner or later > > you’re going to need emotions from your sided wife and emotions from other > > people it’s just truly amazes me how much people have elevated the iPhone. > > Sit back relax and enjoy life. Anthony > > > > Sent from my iPhone 12 Pro!!! > > > >> On Dec 28, 2021, at 3:51 PM, Gary Bowers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Richard - Thanks for the tips. You're a sharp guy! > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > >> Richard Turner > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 1:49 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: FW: Voice Dream Scanner scanning a book > >> > >> Greetings, > >> > >> > >> > >> I have a book that was gifted to me by the author after we had served > >> together for several years on the Oregon State Library Board. When I got > >> to the end of my term, he gave me a signed copy of his book, “Oregon > >> Disasters” by William L. Sullivan, an Oregon travel writer. > >> > >> It had been on my shelf for almost 10 years. I couldn’t find it in an > >> accessible format, so decided on scanning it myself after having it spiral > >> bound. > >> > >> I did some tests with a few approaches; Openbook on a flatbed scanner, > >> Voice Dream Scanner, SuperSense, and KNFB Reader on my iPhone. > >> > >> > >> > >> I decided for sake of speed and accuracy, Voice Dream Scanner would be my > >> choice. > >> > >> I have a iPhone 13 Pro with 256 GB of storage. > >> > >> > >> > >> I have an old FOPYDO scanning stand that I used since I had the book > >> spiral bound and wouldn’t need to deal with trying to get both facing > >> pages at once. > >> > >> I set Voice Dream Scanner to batch mode and turned off the auto capture. > >> Using my Orbit Reader 20 Plus, I put the focus on the Capture Image > >> button, positioned the phone on the stand and put the book on the bed of > >> the stand, with a single page facing up. > >> > >> I hit the select button on the Orbit Reader and captured the first page. > >> Turned the book over, and did the second page. Flipped to the third page > >> and repeated. > >> > >> > >> > >> After 232 pages, I was kicked out of the app. > >> > >> > >> > >> Fortunately, the pages were still in the app, so I saved them to Voice > >> Dream Reader, cleared the Scanner app, and scanned the last 40 or 50 pages. > >> > >> Saved that last part to Voice Dream Reader. > >> > >> The scanning results are quite excellent. > >> > >> I then exported the text from VDR and emailed the two batches to myself, > >> opened then in Microsoft Word, and combined them into one file. > >> > >> > >> > >> In the beginning of the book are a lot of maps with words at odd angles > >> and scattered which no scanning tool, even Openbook, could make sense of. > >> I noticed some hyphenated words that split between two lines like the word > >> fictional that would be rendered fic- > >> > >> tional. > >> > >> Assuming there will be a fair number of hyphenated words and a few other > >> map pages, Word’s spell checker gave it an 89% score. > >> > >> That is damn good in my book. > >> > >> Once I started listening to the book with Voice Dream Reader, and got > >> beyond the Introduction where there was a map or two, I listened to about > >> 34 pages of content that had almost no errors. I heard maybe two over 34 > >> pages. > >> > >> I will finish the 250 page book over the next couple of weeks and give an > >> update as to how accurate it was; but I am pretty confident that the > >> accuracy when on text without funny maps will be plus 98%. > >> > >> > >> > >> For those who do not know about spiral binding a book; I learned of having > >> this done about 43 years ago. > >> > >> I used an OPTACON quite a bit in those single days, and had a nice > >> Webster’s Collegiant Dictionary that I could look words up in, but it was > >> about 2.5 inches thick and a pain to force open in the middle. > >> > >> So, I called around and found a printer who would remove the hard back > >> binding, and spiral bind it into 4 volumes. > >> > >> It wasbrilliant! > >> > >> Fast forward to the current day and my sighted wife, who plays piano some, > >> has been buying books of piano music and having them spiral bound so they > >> would lie flat on the piano. > >> > >> Any store that does photo copying probably has the ability to do spiral > >> binding, like the UPS stores or FedEx stores. 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