Hi, Carrie. Thanks for sharing your results with us. I do have one
question for you. I understand that the Bookshare staff want the
better OCR engine, and that's reasonable. Are they aware that this
page issue may significantly slow down approval of some longer books
and some nonfiction? I am asking this because with the current issue
in play, books must be read through completely. I believe that some
of the more technical books you scan may end up sitting around
because few validaters will be interested enough in them to do a
thorough reading from cover to cover. Of course, I may be wrong
about this. I am asking because I've seen how validaters have
responded to textbooks and technical titles in the past. They seem
to be content to do a quick section break conversion, a spell check,
and upload them. The staff has a lot to deal with, and I'm curious
to know if this aspect of approval has occured to them since it might
not be obvious at first glance. You have my support no matter which
way you go because I know you want to produce the best scans
possible. I'm a little daunted by the Ellery Queen book because it
has 700 actual pages with headers that change as each story changes
plus the extra several hundred odd extra page breaks. Maybe that
colors my view of the section break issue so that it seems bigger
than it is. :) I'm not giving up on the book, and the text is
great. I just wish I had a magic wand to zap the breaks and make
them behave. :)
Monica Willyard
I went into the Bookshare office today, and chopped and scanned a 128-page book (A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy that I'll submit later this week). I used Finereader 7 to OCR it, and also Finereader 8, and then compared the 2 .rtf files.
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