The archipelago on fire ebook

The cost for these scanners was attractive. There are some significant differences between the models. It is very portable and could be taken to a library if they would allow it.

However, there are other considerations which cause me to use the Aura as my primary scanner for books at home. The banner feature for these scanners is the ability to detect the page curvature and use that information to flatten the image as best as it can.

The Aura achieves this by projecting three laser lines on the page spread. This is fairly effective. The Shine Ultra tries to do the same by detecting the edges of the pages.

This does not work as well. It does not use lasers. Despite software written in , these scanners have programs that are a bit clunky to use at times. There is no project save and if the program hangs, you can lose a lot of work. This occurred on a scan of another Verne book, Clovis Dardentor, which itself on this copy is a collection of bound photocopies. The text is clear but the illustrations will have to be replaced but I have access to those.

The program also does not have an "undo" feature except for a trick and many repetitive tasks require a lot of mouse travel to get things done. Keyboard equivalents for buttons and other mouse clicks are simply not present so your fingers get a workout in processing a page book. With some experience, most frustrations can be minimized. Some quirks can be better understood with experience.

For example, if a page spread is too flat, it will not detect the center line gutter well and this is a bit tedious to fix, especially when it must be done to multiple page spreads. Image capture of a book is usually around seconds per page spread. With page spreads in a page book, that is roughly 25 minutes or more to photograph a page book. The total amount of time depends on how much time is taken to turn pages and confirm the positioning and retakes if something does not come out well.

Despite the image flattening, which works better than most other methods, there is still some post processing that must be done. This includes realigning the center line on the gutter because it did not detect it accurately. Pages must also be cropped if you don't want extra-wide images that show the fore-edge of the pages. It is also possible to change color images to grayscale and save as individual images or build a PDF.

It is exceptionally slow and there are other faster methods. It can generally image up to 11x17 inches or European A2 paper. The camera produces images of up to x pixels about 14 megapixels with an effective dpi. So, while it is not as great as a flatbed scanner, it is faster, has curve flattening, built-in lighting, a foot-pedal control, and is generally easier to use. For the purpose of reading a PDF, these specifications are pretty good.

It is possible to get good OCR from them which is good enough for word search but not for making text files as would be used on Gutenberg or the Kindle.

There are four books mentioned in my previous email. I don't know which one s you referred to when you asked about the image quality. The Archipelago on Fire came out pretty well. The page images replicate the color of the physical book. I have other methods of OCR which can be faster but that is a topic for another email. This probably has the effect of reducing the page image resolution. Before this the PDF was very large, around MB but there was not a significant difference in the appearance of the page images or their clarity.

There are some with larger files but usually not much greater image quality for the titles they offer. Ticket No. As noted, I did not scan the filler pages which the publisher used to bulk out the book. Their Island Home was scanned from the first U. The page colors were retained on this one. The same methods as above were used. Other Watt titles by Verne are available online so I did not scan my copies. The Family Without a Name was a real challenge because of the darkened pulp paper that has become stiff and brittle.

Getting images of the page spreads without damaging the book was challenging. I'm sure some deterioration occurred but hopefully not much more than a careful reading of the book. Since the pages were so dark, I decided to use ScanTailor Advanced to process the pages further. The main effect of this was to clear out margins and make the pages black text on a white background.

The printing and paper quality was rather limited so this may have page image quality issues that are more to do with the source book than the scanner or post processing.

You mention methods of transforming the page images into facsimiles in a word processor or page layout program. I have not been very satisfied with the process or the results of this. The time required is sometimes similar to a fast typist re-entering the text because so many errors are introduced from the old printed copies. I have some books not Verne that are done in this fashion and sometimes they are very good, especially with the same typefaces are used as on the original.

That is not my goal at this time. In when I worked with the first five Tom Swift Sr. One had a vintage copy of the book as we pored over the Gutenberg text. For these we imitated a special edition of called the Keds books. At that time there were just two volumes produced. We published all five of the stories in this format on better paper but otherwise quite similar to the vintage copies.

We added a chapter about the range of Tom Swift collectibles available to that point, including some unique items we found along the way. I have folders for each Verne work and have gathered PDFs for as many as possible. In some cases it would be nice to add some of the variant translations which don't seem to be available.

Some of the books for which I have no PDF with page images of a vintage copy include:. V The Flight to France. V Clovis Dardentor. V The Superb Orinoco. Possibly the text is the same as the Boys' Own Annual serial. V The Village in the Treetops. V The Kip Brothers. V Scholarships for Travel. V A Drama in Livonia. I don't recall the number but The Chase of the Golden Meteor is a vintage book that would be good to have.

Most others I have something for each title. Some of these have only been recently translated. I own these modern editions but not PDFs. Thank you, James, for this detailed description of the scanning process.

As an addition, there are other software options besides those that come with the scanner. ScanTailor is one software I've used consistently and that has been very effective in delivering results. The software is free and comes in a variety of flavors. Resident Yes No. Groups : North Archipelago South Archipelago. The Township would like to remind all persons that the following seasonal roads are only maintained by the Township during the summer months and will not be maintained between the dates of October 15th and May 15th inclusive.

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