[bksvol-discuss] Re: If text is too good
- From: Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:30:28 -0500
Sounds great to me. And I will be looking for your submissions. Thanks
for placing such importance on quality.
Pam
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:26:20 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>Hello grpup:
>
>As I say I'm new to submitting books to bookshare.org. This what I'm doing
>which takes more time than simply scanning a book. (1) I scan the book by
>chapter. (2) I spell check the book in the OCR program. (3) I save as rtf. (4)
>I take the document into a word processor whch strips out the bogus
>hyphenation words caused by book formating, since these are not needed. (5)
>but when I do that I must reinsert the page breaks. (6) I've corrected
>formating in reference pages since the OCR messes things up.with references
>for some reason. The only drawback I've found with my submssions is when I
>take out the "exact" book formating to get ride of the bogus hyphens, the page
>headers are placed right above the text. Hence the stripper should not delete
>them.
>
>I hope this makes for a very easy validation. If people find that these steps
>do not lead to an easy validation, please let me know what else can be done.
>
>Jim Nuttall -- Michigan
>
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