badger said:
>   It's not the lens, it is inside Abbyy. 

i'm pretty sure dkretz was pulling our legs
when he made his reference to "the lens"...        ;+)


>   The difference depends on whether FR rotates
>   the image by 2 degrees before the recognition starts.

excellent detective work, badger.  thanks for that.

and, oh my word, who would have ever thought that
archive.org would instruct finereader _not_ to rotate
a page which is crooked...  what an asinine decision...

in my original suggested workflow for these projects,
i recommended that they do an initial shot of the page,
and then analyze the results and rotate the _camera_
ever-slightly as required to get a perfectly straight scan.

once again, the ludicrous irony of having a high-res scan
that is marred in some way -- e.g., by being crooked --
asserts itself...  what a bunch of idiots we have in charge.

anyway, thanks again badger...

-bowerbird