[blindkid] about a book "Slightly Above Time"

[mark feliz]

Hello Heidi,
Many times I have purchased a good used book and taken it to one of the copy 
stores. They will debind--cut the spine of the book. This gives me very 
clean sheets of paper I can then run through my document feeder of my 
scanner. My scanner can handle double-sided paper but if necessary you can 
have the copy store copy your book onto single sheets. Most books will scan 
reasonably well. Of course this will greatly depend on the type of scan 
program you are operating. Save the file as a "doc" file or a simple "txt" 
file and your daughter can bring it up on her Braillenote.

If you do not have this capability of scanning perhaps you live near a blind 
high school or college student. I am confident they would be happy to scan 
the book in for you.

Mark

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From: "Richard Holloway" <rholloway at gopbc.org>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 8:33 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
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Subject: Re: [blindkid] about a book "Slightly Above Time"

> If you can get it as a text file, text files are certainly readable on a 
> BrailleNote.
>
> If you scan it and want it to become text, you need to run it through an 
> OCR program to convert it into text. The quality of text conversions 
> varies based on several factors, mainly the quality of the source 
> documents (a typical book should be fine) and the quality of the actual 
> scans. The biggest problem with bound books is getting a clear scan all 
> the way to the gutter side of the text. If the book is  not terribly 
> expensive, you might need to break the binding if it won't get flat enough 
> or you can even physically remove the pages. (When the gutter of the book 
> won't lay flat the text is scanned out of focus and won't convert very 
> well.)
>
> Obviously a text file is WAY simpler!
>
> You might also post the actual book name here just in case someone has it 
> or hears of it being somewhere. (There's nothing to loose by asking, 
> right?)
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:15 AM, hpscheffer at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm trying to get a book in braille for my daughter, it is new and 
>> Bookshare does not have it, anyone know what the easiest way would be to 
>> get it in braille. I'm wondering if I can find it as a download to then 
>> put on a thumb drive and see if she can read it on her Braille Note, but 
>> it would not be in braille format so I don't know if it would work. I 
>> could also put it on the Victor reader, but I prefer her to read it. I 
>> could also scan it, but it has 310 pages so that would be very time 
>> consuming. Any experiences from anyone how to get this quickly?
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>> Heidi
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