[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions

  • From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:02:58 -0500

I didn't. I'll take a look for the heck of it just to see how it comes out. Thanks.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Have you tried using grayscale at 400 DPI?  It is usually more forgiving
of vertically skewed margins.  Guido


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I checked the page just to see for myself. 1108 characters in 207 words
according to K1000 V11.01.  If the misrecognitions or unrecognitions were
evenly scattered, it might not be unbearable, but they weren't evenly
dispersed.  The problem with this page was very tight margins.  I tried it

landscape and portrait with no difference either way.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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A book with an accuracy of 99.1% has an average of 1 word in 1,000 not
found in the dictionary, meaning one word every couple of pages, or so.
While this may be at the low end of 'excellent' it's still pretty darn
good, and should not be rejected based on 'low' text accuracy.  If the
book had missing pages, and it were not possible to obtain the missing
pages, that would be a different ball of wax.

G.


Guido Dante Corona
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were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who
questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being
wise."
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Gary,

Were there a lot of proper names in the book that
might have thrown off the ranking? 99.1 seems pretty
high to me, so I don't see why you think that would
have to be rejected?

I do read the books I validate, (except for two in the
past) line for line, word for word, which is how I
find missing words in sentences and scanning errors
that are proper words but not proper in that
particular context. This is to be expected by a
validator, because scanning machines are not perfect.
They are thrown off, I think, by the size of the type
on the page, how close together the words are on the
page, and the quality of the page's paper.

As I said, I don't understand why you think the book
with 99.1 ranking would have had to be rejected.

G.Cindy



--- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've just had one enlightening experience with a
book I've already done.  I
found a page missing and rerequested this book on
library loan.  When I got
it I did the missing page.  I couldn't get it above
99.1 no matter what I
did.  This must have been a different copy because
if the whole book had
been like this, I'd have had to read the whole book,
line, by line, retyping
as I went.  There's no other way to fix this kind of
problem and if we
encounter a book like this where the whole book is
envolved, that book will
have to be left behind.
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> No validator would object to validating a book
like
> that, Gary. We expect to do some work, and feel
guilty
> if there's nothing to do but enjoy the read,
> especially now that there's equal pay.
>
> I read what I validate, and can tell you that even
> with 99.4 accuracy but will be something for me to
do,
> because even the K1000 ranked spelling won't catch
> homonyms or the number 1 for the capital I or some
> other things I can't think of at the moment. smile
>
> G.Cindy
>
> --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I've tried it both ways and emotionally prefer a
>> clean scan, but i must say
>> that there were times when I carried it too far.
If
>> I can get pages to
>> about 99.4 accuracy, there's a good chance that I
>> will have pages which can
>> be cleaned up with not too much work--certainly
no
>> more work than the time
>> it would take to optimize a book and probably
>> somewhat less.  I did one
>> book, optimizing all the way, and it was not an
>> experience I'd willing
>> repeat.  Btw, I will submit this book as soon as
I
>> can read through and,
>> since it has a few graphs, I will ask someone
>> sighted to take a look at a
>> print copy and help out.  Not at all a long book,
>> 250 pages, but a few
>> graphs.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:39 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to
>> validating fair quality
>> submissions
>>
>>
>> > Hi Donna,
>> >
>> > I personally, think it is a great idea.  I have
>> been disheartened lately
>> > at the number of fair and good submissions on
the
>> step 1 page awaiting
>> > validation.  Chances are that a rescan of a
book
>> raited fair would take
>> > less time than actually fixing a scan of less
than
>> excellent quality.
>> >
>> > Peace,
>> > Mayrie
>> >
>> > At 07:22 AM 1/12/2008, you wrote:
>> >>Hi all.
>> >>
>> >>I apologize in advance if this suggestion
ruffles
>> feathers, but it is made
>> >>in the spirit of getting excellent quality
books
>> into the collection.
>> >>
>> >>I am one of the volunteers who believes that
>> "validating" a book shouldn't
>> >>involve rewriting it because the scan is poor.
>> There are some books which
>> >>have strange formatting or difficult tables and
>> charts or other things
>> >>that typically don't scan well and the only way
to
>> get such books into the
>> >>collection is in fact for a very patient
validator
>> to go through the whole
>> >>book and fix problematic errors that a rescan
>> won't fix.
>> >>
>> >>However, there are a lot of books on the step
one
>> download page that are
>> >>just straightforward text, fiction or
nonfiction,
>> that should scan with no
>> >>problems, but are rated as fair.  In my
opinion,
>> it is a waste of
>> >>volunteer time and effort to have a validator
make
>> these scans passable.
>> >>
>> >>So here's my alternative.  If I, or any other
>> scanner, obtains a copy of a
>> >>book that is currently awaiting validation and
>> rated fair, would it be
>> >>appropriate for us to download the fair copy,
>> reject it, and then upload a
>> >>better scan of the same book?
>> >>
>> >>Thoughts?  Ideas?  No rotten tomatoes please!
>> >>
>> >>Donna
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