I think he was being tongue in cheek but probably needed to say so.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Gordon Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 7:50 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com 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 <gdbow...@att.net> wrote: >> >> Richard - Thanks for the tips. You're a sharp guy! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of >> Richard Turner >> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 1:49 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> 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. We use a UPS store near us. >> >> I had her take this book to get it spiral bound. It cost about $4.50. >> >> They leave the front and back cover, so you only lose the spine of the book. >> >> Well worth it to make scanning that much easier. >> >> >> >> You may wonder why I didn’t take advantage of the column recognition feature >> in Voice Dream Scanner; well, I don’t have a good set up to do that with the >> width I would need, and this proved in the end I think to be faster. >> >> >> >> Later, >> >> >> >> Richard >> >> “One can’t be angry when one looks at a penguin.” ~ John Ruskin >> >> >> >> My web site; https://www.turner42.com/ >> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.turner42.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cbc96be094c28480553a808d9ca3ac5c2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637763176037196141%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=z4qK6kkqq7SqWUBXL7D6ENcWtbgcY2JO5ipuY2CF4ME%3D&reserved=0> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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