Thanks Carrie. Perhaps sysmic tremblings during the scan? What OCR and settings did you use? Guido Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/22/2004 03:03 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: newbie question Hi Guido, I hate to say this, but I scanned the book at the Bookshare office, using their high-speed scanner. Who knows why it did such a poor job. Usually it produces better quality text. Maybe the scanner needs to be cleaned, maybe the OCR reader didn't have something set correctly, I dunno. Since I scanned the book and submitted it, I feel the responsibility to correct the book so it can be a happy productive member of the bookshare database. Carrie --- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Carrie, if you have access to a print copy at Bookshare, why waste > your > time on this mangled etext copy? Three minutes in the high-speed Canon > scanner will generate a new image deck, and 20 minutes of unattended > text > recognition will generate a brand-new etext copy without dropped off > words > for you or someone else to validate at a lower cost and higher end > quality. > > Guido > > > > Guido D. Corona > IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. > IBM Research, > Phone: (512) 838-9735 > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: > http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html > > > > > > Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 06/22/2004 01:50 PM > Please respond to > bksvol-discuss > > > To > bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > cc > > Subject > [bksvol-discuss] Re: newbie question > > > > > > > Hi Rachel, > > The book is at the Bookshare office, so I can get the book and clean up > the places where there are missing words. Do you have a list of the > pages > that need to be cleaned up? If so, please send the list to me > (ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx) and I'll fix the pages. I'd much rather spend some > time to make it legible than leave it as is. > > Thanks, Carrie > > --- Rachel <rherold@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > hello all, > > I just validated Christopher Stasheff's A Wizard in Midgard. I > cleaned > > it > > up quite a bit but there were places where half a sentence was just > > plain > > missing. Or where the line of gibberish wasn't decipherable. > > Overall, the story was quite readable when I got thru with it but the > > occasional missing half of a sentence or missing sentence might be > > rather > > annoying. > > I rated the quality as poor but accepted my edited version. > > Is this what you all would have done? > > Thanks, > > > > Rachel Herold > > rherold@xxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail