I have a question.
I am scanning away on a book I guess to be out of print, as it was only
available by purchase of a used copy, copyright 1967.
It is a science type of book. Psychology, and Beyond.
The book has numbered notations.
In other words, for example one would be like this ....
“ ... world’s end.”5 “
These are then referenced at the end of the book.
But there is another type of annotation.
There are sentences which are punctuated by an asterisk. Such as this for
example.
“ ... at world’s end* “
And at the bottom of the page there is an asterisk followed by a space and a
further note or reference about that statement.
So here is my questions.
How does the Bookshare copy get done up?
How do you want me the scanner to handle both of these situations.
Should there be a bracket around that asterisk at the bottom of the page?
One thing I notice that is going to be troublesome.
Sometimes the scan of those numbered footnotes, might actually OCR recognize
the wrong number! Which of course makes this a pretty laborious project.
I can use my K-1000 to read ALL punctuation, and double check everything with
the Image of the scanned book. Wow, huh?
Who knows how many print impaired in our community will have all their worldly
knowledge hanging in the balance? But then again, if we want it right, we want
it right! Right?
Finally.
There are a number of diagrams and such which are called Figure 1, Figure 2 and
so forth. Some of them will have a caption. Others will not.
I am bracketing those captions and typing image removed before the caption. Is
this okay?
Happy New Year and thanks to all of you, for your time and friendship in the
Bookshare world in 2015.
May we climb even higher in our digital piles in 2016. And Happy Reading.
Rik James
