Hi, Jackie. I can see why you would feel frustrated with this situation. I would feel that way too. I would like to mention a couple of things that might shed some light on the issue. I want to help you if I can.
First, scanning paperbacks in two-page mode is something I do often. I know that Kurzweil, FineReader, and Openbook all support this but do not have it as their default setting. I'm using Kurzweil 11, and I have it set to recognize 2 pages per scan. It does insert page breaks correctly in this mode. Openbook seems to be reliable with page breaks as well. I wonder if you might have accidentally scanned your paperback with one page per scan turned on. It's easy to do that since that's the setting OCR programs default to. I changed that setting and then saved it to my default settings in Kurzweil.
Second, your validater does have the option to insert page breaks if page numbers are present in the book. This is something validaters can do but are not required to do. Your validater may not have known this or may not have chosen to do this. Sometimes when books lack some page breaks, a validater will release the book to step 1 so that a sighted volunteer can insert page breaks. Again, this is optional. If your book is fairly short, I would be willing to validate it and insert page breaks if there are page numbers or headings that would show me where to insert the breaks. I would feel overwhelmed if your book is one of those that's 500 pages or more just because of its size.
Finally, if you have your original scan, you can use the page numbers and headings to guide you in inserting page breaks. Control enter will insert a new page break in both Kurzweil and Microsoft Word. I don't remember if that keystroke works in Openbook. Once your page breaks are in place, you can submit your book again and will likely see it validated and approved quickly since people on this list are aware of your situation.
Jackie, I'm sorry you've had a book rejected. I hope what I've said here can help you in some way.
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