Hi David Griffith,
I wish I could have access to a fine machine like you made reference too.
The one with the camera... Right now I am tearing the pages out of the book and
scanning them. The scanner I have actually is supposed to be a duplex scanner.
It is the HP 5590. How ever I have yet to figure out how to make it do duplex
scanning. even calling HP directly didn't help. The auto sheet feeder does well
in single sided mode however. Any ideas on how to get a HP 5590 duplex
scanning? I am running vista home addition.
Thank you.
God bless,
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Griffith" <d.griff...@btinternet.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] synchronizing documents
Use the Microsoft document Scanning application that comes with the MS
Office suite. One of the options that will be provided in this application
is a check box to indicate that the document that you are scanning is double
sided. The application will prompt you to scan the reverse pages and then
merge them. By the way this application has an excellent OCR.
However this is a very time consuming way of doing this. It depends on how
much you have to read but you may want to consider the purchase of a duplex
scanner. Basically I had to read loads of books for my recent Masters
degree. In the end the only feasible way of independently reading the number
of books I needed to was to purchase the key books, tear the pages out and
feed them through my duplex scanner and start reading.
In this way I could scan a 300-400 page book in less than half and hour. For
my PhD though I have successfully argued to the DSA in the UK that they
should fund the purchase of an Eye Pal scanner. This is a portable and
extremely small camera that sits on a tripod over an open book. Crucially
this device also includes a motion detector which will recognise when you
have turned the page of a book. Apparently in this book mode of scanning you
can make 20 2 page scans a minute. That is 40 pages. It is very expensive
at the moment and I think it is only feasible to get through Access to Work
or Disabled Student's Allowance but this does seem to be the future of
scanning for people with visual impairment.
Regards
David Griffith
My Low Vision Resources Web Site is
http://www.nonags.org/members/dajgriff/
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com
[mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Saturday, 27 December 2008 19:47
To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com
Subject: [Blind-Computing] synchronizing documents
Hi
I need to find a way to synchronize pages between two documents. This
is my trouble I bout a vista compatible scanner that has the auto sheet
feeder but it is only scanning one side of the document at a time. Since I
am scanning text books for my college classes, the resulting document has
pages one, three, five and so on. If I run the document through with the
other side of the pages up I get pages two, four, six and so on. I need a
quick easy to merge these documents in to a single document with the pages
in the correct place. I do have MS Word 2007 but I have no idea if there is
a way to use it for this task. Any ideas on how to fix this trouble with
merging my documents would be appreciated.
God bless,
Mark
--
Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon
Overcast, 41.0°F Wind:SSW-210° at 15mph
Eat your spinach and you'll grow up big and strong like Popeye. You'll
also end up with a girlfriend that looks like Olive Oyl.
Created by Weather Signature v1.20 . http://www.weathersig.com
God loves you!
http://www.homebusinessxpert.net/
www.donorschoose.org
Visit the JAWS Users List home page at:
http://www.jaws-users.com
Visit the Blind Computing home page at:
http://www.blind-computing.com
Address for the list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/
To post to this group, send email to
blind-computing@jaws-users.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to
blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com
For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject
or body of a blank message to:
blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com
Use the following address in order to contact the management team
blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the
following address:
jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com
Visit the JAWS Users List home page at:
http://www.jaws-users.com
Visit the Blind Computing home page at:
http://www.blind-computing.com
Address for the list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/
To post to this group, send email to
blind-computing@jaws-users.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to
blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com
For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject
or body of a blank message to:
blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com
Use the following address in order to contact the management team
blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the
following address:
jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com
-- Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon
Overcast, 44.1°F Wind:SSW-200° at 13mph
Visit the JAWS Users List home page at:
http://www.jaws-users.com
Visit the Blind Computing home page at:
http://www.blind-computing.com
Address for the list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/
To post to this group, send email to
blind-computing@jaws-users.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to
blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com
For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject
or body of a blank message to:
blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com
Use the following address in order to contact the management team
blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the
following address:
jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com
