[blindlaw] Thoughts about law school application

[Rod Alcidonis]

Angie is absolutely right. I amusing the Fujitsu fi 2120C scanner and I
recently scanned a book of 500 pages in under 15 minutes. I could not be
happier in the world of scanning using this kind of technology. In fact, now
I don't even want to waste time trying to get books from the publishers, I
just have the binders removed, scan the text as an image with a scanning
programs that comes with the scanner, and open the file in Kurzweil to have
an ABBYY recognition done. Kurzweil is a little too slow when scanning, but
when using this program, it scans every page one after the other without
having to even pause in between scanning jobs. A week ago, I had someone
scanning for me, and she was able to scan three large books in an hour and
15 minutes with not much effort at all.

Highly recommended.

Rod 
  -----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf of Tai Schmittroth
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:19 PM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Thoughts about law school application

I would echo Angie's comments on getting books unbound. I have found that
copy centers are more than willing to rebind books that I have had taken
apart. They can't use the original binder, so they just use those round
plastic bindings (I forget what they're called). It's been no problem. My
friends have commented that my rebound books have been easier to read
because the binding allows the book to lie flat on a table.
Tai

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Angie Matney
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:53 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Thoughts about law school application

Greg made a lot of good points. 

I wanted to tell the prospective and current students about the OCR system
I'm using. I have a Fujitsu duplex scanner, and it does an incredible job. I
had to scan a 1300-page torts book. I did this by having the binding
removed. I could count the number  of errors I have seen on one hand, and
none were in citations. In fact, my version of the book had fewer OCR errors
than the one the publisher sent to me. I think this technology has vastly
improved over the last few years, and I am amazed daily by my scanner. It's
incredible to be able to get a huge book, scan it, and be reading it in
perfect refreshable braille within a few hours. If you can get an OCR
package, I can't say enough good things about the Fujitsu FI-5220C and the
ABBYY Finereader OCR software. Also, don't be afraid tot have your books
unbound! Of course, this doesn't work for library books, but it helps get
nearly error-free scans with books you own.

Best,

Angie





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