[bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreading Software
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:53:59 -0500
Let us know what you find out… I know many people would prefer an alternative
to Word 2007.
Valerie
On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Mike wrote:
> OK, I downloaded Jarte and opened one of the books I am scanning. I looked
> at the first few pages fairly carefully and skimmed the rest. As far as I
> can tell, all the formatting that I want in there and that I know bookshare
> would like to have in there is correct. So, I saved a copy in Jarte. The
> Jarte copy is half the size of the Word version.
> I am not really blaming all the bloat on Word. I use Omnipage for OCR, but
> through the "acquire text" feature in Word (because the user interface in
> Omnipage is completely opaque to me) and I am pretty sure that in an effort
> to format the page like what is scanned, Omnipage puts many format changes in
> as Word "styles." Then I come in and change the formatting to be more
> uniform and Word does not eliminate the old styles, but creates new ones in
> the form "old style+make all text times new roman 12 point." Jarte, not
> caring about styles, cleans that all out and leaves only actual changes in
> font, italics, bold and so on (as I would think Word would do, but no).
>
> I'm going to try scanning into Word, then doing the cleanup in Jarte and see
> how it goes (I'd pay Jarte money to have the acquire text feature). And, the
> real test will be if bookshare accepts the the book.
>
> Hmmm, where is a short book to try, I been into doing so many long books
> lately, but I'd really like to see whether this works relatively soon.
>
> Earthworks by Brian Aldiss, 128 pages. Africa is the last frontier...in a
> starving and overpopulated world. A world gone dry. A world of horror where
> literacy and thought are for machines only. Where cities are behives built
> on stilts to protect them from the chemicals which grow crops. Where penal
> institutions are collective farms. Where petty infractions condemn men to
> work for the rest of their lives alongside robots tilling the dead soil. The
> world is a place where corpses stalk the earth, for there is no longer room
> in the ground. Africa is the last hope...
>
> Not very cheery, but it is short (compared to the 750 page book that the
> phrase "Rackin' threes" that I mentioned in another email comes from).
>
> Misha
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