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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It really depends on the size of the book and the complexity of its content. 17GB is really not all that much. I have worked recently with some books that ended up being a MB per page, because of their graphic density and use of a lot of color.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So some questions?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Are you using Abbyy to drive your scanner, never a good idea. Best to use the native scanner software and setup your settings there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Is the DPI resolution setting at 300 for standard text and 600 for STEM content. I actually do all my scanning at 600 DPI to TIFF format. You can also output to PDF, not something that I would recommend in most instances. Generally I do the first pass to TIFF but also generate a PDF version as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>What is the image resolution set for, it should be the same as the text resolution. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I turn all compression off and do not recommend you use it, it creates a variety of problem. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I actually scan all images as "best" because memory is so cheap and I do not want to go back and scan the book because the image quality was set too low.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It may have a lot to do with what you are scanning and its complexity more than anything else. Every new addition of ABBYY has created larger files because the algorithms used are collecting more and more data. 17GB is really not that big a file. I regularly see files of this size and larger. Memory is cheap, perhaps it is time to upgrade you storage devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ron Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>foreigntype<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] ABBYY Finereader 12 Default Settings Gobbling Disk Space?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Al et al ATHEN-ites,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Try using the compress file and flatten images settings and see if this helps reduce the file size. I seem to recall that a previous version of ABBYY FR had this same problem with gigantic/unmanageable file sizes. Someone else on the list may recall what tricks were used for the earlier version of AFR that did this same behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Wink<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Wink Harner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Adaptive Technology Consulting & Training<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Alternative Media & Text Conversions<span style='text-transform:uppercase'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com"><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue'>foreigntype@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This email was dictated with Dragon Naturally Speaking. Please forgive any omissions, errata or anomalies.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> athen-list <a href="mailto:[mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu]">[mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Al Puzzuoli<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Athen] ABBYY Finereader 12 Default Settings Gobbling Disk Space?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just wondering whether others have run into this. We recently upgraded from ABBYY 9.0 to ABBYY 12. This is our first semester with version 12, and we are seeing that disk space is being consumed at an alarming rate. For example, the folder containing the entire output of our book production for Spring semester is 5GB. One book from this semester, produced with ABBYY 12 is taking up 17 GB. Have ABBYY’s default behaviors and settings changed markedly enough to cause this? What settings for resolution, color depth, etc, are generally preferred when doing eText production?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for any thoughts,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Al Puzzuoli<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Information Technologist<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Michigan State University, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, 120 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824-1033<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>517-884-1915 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.rcpd.msu.edu">http://www.rcpd.msu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:gray' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2015.0.6086 / Virus Database: 4409/10607 - Release Date: 09/09/15<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>