[nabs-l] Scanning books with Kurzweil

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Chris,

Yes, you scan one page at a time, so with longer pieces of information
such as books, you usually need to break the binding. I have an older
version of Kurzweil which was purchased about six years ago, so it takes
about a minute per page. Current versions, I believe, are a bit faster
and can do a few more things such as recognize paper money, though I
don't know why one would use a program like Kurzweil for this. I rarely
had to scan textbooks for school on my own, but I sometimes wanted
electronic copies of chapters the DSO had provided in other formats, or
I often scanned my own hand-outs. My husband and I use it a lot for
personal reasons like Ross bought a book about a specific work-out and
weight training program, and he scanned the book.

So to answer your question, yes, you do need to scan a book page by
page, though it scans both front and back of a page at one time. Others,
I'm sure, can provide you with more details and speak to current
versions of Kurzweil along with other OCR software.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
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http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
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Hi Bridgit and everyone,

Is there a way to scan books with Kurzweil? I thought you have to 
scan page-by-page with Kurzweil, but I have heard people on this 
list saying that they can scan books with it.  How do you do 
that?
Thanks,

Chris