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The Workflow is working now

It turns out if you do nothing but rotate and crop with the Atiz scanner, and leave all the other stuff for Kirtas’s Bookscan editor (Converting to bi-tonal- de-skewing et cetera) , then you can batch process the book in the same time it takes to scan it.

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Unknown said…
Does that mean you are able to process the book SIMULTANEOUSLY with scanning, or if it took you 45 minutes to scan the book, it also took 45 minutes to process the scanned images?
February 3, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Joy said…
It does not mean that I can process the book while scanning. It does mean that if it takes 45 minutes to scan, it will take 45 minutes to batch, which means that you can batch the book while you are scanning the next book.
February 3, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Joy said…
One of the great things about Kirtas's Bookscan Editor is that it can rotate, crop, de-skew, clean up the background, turn the image to bi-tonal, and center the page in about the same time as it takes to scan the book or less. The software really is designed for speed, and the book comes out looking very good.

The Atiz software, while it can do all those things (except for maybe the centering- I haven't checked that), takes a longer time to do.

So, if at all possible, I want to batch the images using Bookscan Editior.
February 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM
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