[bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:04:04 -0400
Haven't seen too many 2000 page books, but am working on Rise and Fall of
the Third Reich--over 1500 pages. I find that I'm getting over 95 percent
accuracy according to the stats on even the index and notes pages. When I
rescanned these pages with decolumnization turned on, the stats went up to
97. I was able to check page numbers and, except where I deliberately kept
two of the same page for comparison's sake, there were no missing pages nor
any added ones. If a student is using this book, btw, the index can maybe
be overlooked since, unless the book is being criticized for errors in its
indexation, the find feature should be usable.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
> In almost every book I have scanned, which is about a thousand, I have
> rarely found the pagination quite that exact. First, pictures are
inserted,
> sometimes on un-numbered pages. Also, some pages, such as charts and
> graphs, are either un-numbered of just plain missing. Suppose I get a
> two-thousand page book from a library and scan it perfectly, but miss one
> index page. Do you really want that book trashed? We are not talking
about
> simple issues here. We are talking about a group of people, I mean us,
who
> have spent most of our lives without immediate access to current books,
> however bad the form. Let's not give that up in search of perfection.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:18 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
>
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> > Search for page numbers as in 79 followed by 80 etc. until you go
through
> > the book's page numbers. It sounds like a lot of work but really does
not
> > take much time.
> >
> > E.
> > At 03:55 PM 8/10/2004, you wrote:
> > >I've hesitated in offering my services in validating due to my concern
> > >(perhaps unwarranted) that I couldn't do the maticulous job some of yu
> > >obviously do based on the books I routinely read from BookShare.
> > >
> > >At this point, I've not purchased any of the fancy ocr packages such as
> > >k100 or Open Book which would make reviewing submissions a relative
> > >breeze. In reviwing the outlined tasks involved in validating, the
> > >stickler would be the one concerning making certain that the text is
> > >incomplete form and no pages are mmissing. Other than reading the
entire
> > >book, how would one go about this task without a program such as K100
> > >which seems more and more impressive every time you folks discuss it?
> > >
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