Dashiell Hammett is public domain in Canada, as is Raymond Chandler. I did some page scans for four Chandler novels and created an e-book from The Big Sleep. I'll have to find time to scan some Hammett. Don't ask me when. The Fujitsu actually looks pretty nice, but for the amount of book scanning I actually do it's overkill. James Simmons On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Al Haines <ajhaines@shaw.ca> wrote:
James, Roger - thanks for your comments.
Re resolution - I've dealt with some IA scansets that Irfanview has reported to be 96dpi. My Abbyy 6.0 Pro upconverts them to 300dpi and seems to handle them OK.
Re its price - in Canada, it's about $600, which is about twice the price of my Plustek Opticbook 3600. For the amount of scanning I do, the Opticbook was a time-saving bargain (15 seconds/scan) compared to my previous scanner's minute or more. Aside from any resolution questions, if the Scansnap can do a scan in 4-5 seconds, it would eventually pay for itself in my time saved.
I've looked into DIY scanners occasionally over the last couple of years, but it involves more space and complexity than I have a taste for, and they all involve manual involvement (turning pages, pushing buttons), which is something I'm trying to minimize or do away with.
If wishes were horses, I'd have one of those robo-scanners that you put a book into, set things up, and it turns pages itself, but my budget doesn't run to five and six figures, which is what they seem to cost. (Several years ago, DPCanada was negotiating with someone for such a scanner, but it didn't work out for reasons unknown to me.)
I've got stacks of pre-1922 books that aren't in IA, and more stacks of post-1922 books that are public domain in Canada. And with Canada being a life+50 country, more authors enter its public domain each year, e.g. C.S. Lewis (Narnia Chronicles) in 2014, Winston S. Churchill and Thomas B. Costain in 2016, etc, etc. So many books, so little time...
Al
-----Original Message----- *From:* gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] *On Behalf Of *Roger Frank *Sent:* Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:37 AM *To:* Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion *Subject:* Re: [gutvol-d] Fujitsu Scansnap SV600 scanner
What concerned me was the resolution it would produce. I know Abbyy is okay with 300 dpi, The SV600 optical resolution horizontal is from 285 dpi to 218 dpi. Vertical it is from 283 dpi to 152 dpi. Optical resolution differs due to different scanning angle on the same document. Depending on the typeface size, that may not be enough.
In a review at http://geekdad.com/2013/10/review-fujitsu-scansnap-sv600-overhead-scanner/ it says you can select the resolution to be 300 or 600, so are they doing some interpolating? The screenshot there even shows 1200 dpi for b/w. All that from something that’s optically as low as 152 dpi? Smoke and mirrors, perhaps.
—Roger Frank
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