[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submission
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:03:39 -0700 (PDT)
Good ideas, Rick.
Cindy
--- Rik James <d28rik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm just working on The Big Bam, a new Babe Ruth
> biography. An excellen
> read, by the way, baseball fan or not!, any of you
> validators!
>
> There is a series of about 10 pages of photographs.
> The captions all
> scanned real nicely, and I do as Katie suggests, to
> delete the jibberish
> characters. Doing that really enhances the reading,
> I think.
>
> A Suggestion:
> what I do is to consistently insert this in front of
> each of the captions:
>
> [PHOTO CAPTION]
>
> I actually just copy that text to the clipboard, and
> paste it in for each
> caption, so it works pretty well and I think as a
> reader myself, it helps to
> hear the term before the caption, and you know it is
> not part of the text
> narrative.
>
> Hope that is a useful idea.
>
> Something else -- Sometimes these pages of the book
> are part of the page
> pagination and sometimes they are not. If they are,
> I have put in a page
> number if there is not one.
>
> In this current book I'm working on, they are not
> part of the page numbering
> and the next page with text is the page after the
> last page before the
> photos.
>
> One thing I did one time was that I found there was
> only like one more page
> of a chapter remaining after a set of pages with
> photographs. I chose to go
> ahead and move those captions to after that last
> page of the chapter. It
> sure makes it nice to not have the chapter
> interrupted by the captions.
>
> Thanks.
> Rik
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Katie Star
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:53 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Submission
>
> HI Alexis,
>
>
>
> This is common for the OCR software to do with
> pictures or illustrations. IT
> may pick up a word or so but it is mostly odd
> symbols. The best thing to do
> in this case is keep the caption and delete the
> gibberish.
>
>
>
> The other option would be to have sighted assistance
> and put a description
> of the picture but not required.
>
>
>
> Katie Hill
>
> Miracles happen not in opposition to Nature, but in
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>
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>
> -St. Augustine
>
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> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Alexis Read
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:35 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submission
>
>
>
> Just submitted a book entitled "The Little Book of
> Hugs." There are many
> pictures in the print version that didn't scan.
> When the OCR was applied to
> the text, the pictures converted to letters and
> symbols that didn't make
> sense. I'm not sure if this will be difficult for
> the volunteer who
> validates it or not. Most of the pictures have
> captions that scanned
> decently.
>
>
>
> Alexis
>
>
>
> Alexis Read
> alexisread@xxxxxxxxx
>
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