[bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:34:06 -0500
Rui, same here. And I agree, 95% accuracy should be considered poor.
However, I have found some books of about 97.5, maybe 98%, to be readable.
Again, though, I do believe that we should do our best to submit scans of
excellent quality which, as you said, would be 99% or above. Take care!
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rui Cabral" <rui@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
> Hi Jana:
>
> Anyone who has "attempted" to read a book with 95% accuracy will tell you
> that they shuttered at the thought.
>
> 99% and above is reasonable. now of course there are exceptions, lots of
> foreign words, slang, etc.
> But usually 99% and above is what I shoot for.
>
> -- rui
> Bookshare Unofficial Scanning Page
> http://members.cox.net/booksharescans
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 4:58 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
>
>
> > Hi, Mike! Depending on how much work you want to do on the book, you
> could
> > always attempt to raise the quality a bit by correcting OCR errors as
you
> > encounter them. Right now I'm validating a book that is in fair
> condition,
> > and once I'm done, I'll be able to upgrade the quality to good, although
> > there are still some words missing from the text, as well as a few
scannos
> > that I couldn't figure out. If you use K1000, you can run it through
the
> > ranked spelling feature to see what the percentage is for words spelled
> > correctly. Jesse says that a book is considered readable with a 95%
> > accuracy. Most of the volunteers would differ on that. I would say
that
> if
> > it's 97.5% or higher, you're probably okay. Now that I have K1000, I
try
> to
> > go for 99% or higher, but I think that's because the perfectionist
spirit
> is
> > catching up with me. <Smile> Hope this helps!
> >
> > Jana
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 1:52 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] When to Reject!!
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I am now validating a novel on which I have to decide whether the text
> is
> > > readable enough or not. The book is all there, I can follow the
story,
> > > but there are a lot of words scrambled and missing. Where does one
draw
> > > the line between accepting it as a fair book or canning it?
> > > It has been sitting in the pool for a couple of months with no one
> > > touching it. The book is scanned by a frequent contributor though
this
> > > particular book doesn't come up to what has been done by this
individual
> > > in the past.
> > >
> > > I could easily return it to the pool; but this likely would place the
> book
> > > in limbo for who knows how long?
> > >
> > > So, how poor does fair text have to be to be bad text?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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