And, I was writing tongue and check. Sent from my iPhone 12 Pro!!!
> On Dec 29, 2021, at 12:08 PM, Anthony Vece <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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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