Dear Mark If you have a duplex scanner then having to do what you are doing is ridiculous and we must be able to find a way for you to avoid this hassle!
I am afraid I do not currently use the same scanner as you. I currently use the Canon DR 2580. What scanning software are you using? If you are using Kurzweil you should find the option to use duplex scanning under the scanning options under the settings menu. I do not personally rate the OCR on Kurzweil but if you are OK with this it might be your simplest option. It is possible that there is a switch on the scanner? HP need to be more helpful. If there is not a switch on the scanner there must be an option to set duplex scanning in the scanning software which came with your HP Scanner. The following should work if you have Microsoft Office and 2 your scanner driver is accessible . Go to Programs , Office Tools, Microsoft Document Scanning. Open the application and tab down to make sure that original is double sided is definitely not checked. This is important as we want the scanner driver to sort out the duplex scanning and we do not want to do this manually.. Keep on tabbing down until you hear the scanner button. Open this up and make sure that your scanner is selected and then tab down and make sure that show scanner dialogue before scanning is checked . This is not checked by default. Press ok and return to the main Document Scanning window. Have some pages ready to scan in your scanner sheet feeder. Press the scan button in Microsoft document Scanning. There may be a pause here whilst the scanner driver loads. Whether the scanner driver window comes to the front or not is slightly unpredictable so if after a minute you do not hear anything press alt tab to cycle through your open windows to find your scanner driver. It should be there somewhere. Now this is the bit I cannot absolutely advise you on as I do not have your scanner. However if you have a duplex scanner there absolutely must be an option to set this in your scanner driver. At the moment it will be set to simplex and you have to change this to duplex. This should be a once only change so if you cannot make this change yourself you might need sighted help for this bit. Once you have made this change move to the Ok or scan button of your scanner driver and control should be passed back to Microsoft document Scanning . Once your scan is completed Microsoft Document Imaging will load with an image of your scanned pages. You now simply go to the Tools menu and select the send Text to Word option. Press ok to confirm you want all pages to be sent and your pages should be opened automatically in Word. Word will open this as a web page htm format and will try to preserve all the font formatting. Personally I find that reading with Jaws for example works best with simpler font layouts. I normally press control A to select all my scan and set everything to Arial 12. Then rather than saving in htm I normally save as rich text format. You should not think the Office OCR is a poor relation by the way. It is my OCR of choice as I find it easily outperforms programs like Kurzweil. The interface is less smooth than Kurzweil though. Give this a try and see if it works. Let us know if there is a problem as I say it is unacceptable four you to be struggling with this problem when you already have a duplex scanner. 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: Sunday, 28 December 2008 06:28 To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] synchronizing documents 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. 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