[bksvol-discuss] Re: Converting KES to RTF
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:42:21 -0400
I didn't know that one, either. It does make life much easier when you're
trying to get through several books.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Converting KES to RTF
Thank you! Sometimes knowing too much about how something USED TO work is
a barrier to experimentation. :-) I was under the misguided impression
that \p would be added in version 10 to find page breaks, but thought we
would only be able to search for one of them. Thank you for changing the
way Kurzweil performs searches in order to make that possible. It
certainly will help a lot.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Baum" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:42 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Converting KES to RTF
> Version 10 lets you include a page boundary in a search. So you could
> search for blank pages with Edit->Find, by indicating that you wish to
> search for two page boundaries. The find string for a page boundary is
> backslash P (that's \p). So to search for a blank page, use "\p\p" as
> your page boundary.
>
> Note that this won't find pages with, say, a space character on them.
> Just entirely blank pages.
>
> The "dash problem" used to occur when you enabled hyphen removal (which
> is enabled by default), and when the last word of a line contained a dash
> (note that it didn't have to end with a dash, just contain one). I've
> looked at that specific problem a few times, and may have fixed it in
> 10 - I'm not sure offhand.
>
> Stephen
>
> At 04:15 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote:
>>I also wonder if there is a good way to find blank pages. I wish they
>>would show up in the poorly recognized pages list with a 0.0 confidence
>>level. Does this ever happen?
>>
>>When reading a book all the way through I have a good method for finding
>>the blank pages, I just can't go back and find them later. You might
>>want to go in to the verbocity options for Kurzweil and find the event
>>for turning a page while reading. Set it to chime and it will make a
>>tiny squeak-like sound when it passes a page boundary. If you hear more
>>than one squeak-;like sound in a row you know there was a blank page and
>>it might be time to examine page numbering before and after, or time to
>>insert something on that page to make it a non-blank page.
>>
>>Remember that Kurzweil doesn't remove the blank pages when you save. It
>>only refuses to show them when you open an RTF with blank pages.
>>
>>I've noticed the dash problem too, but I am not sure whether the problem
>>is an OCR problem completely unrelated to the way Kurzweil handles the
>>results, or whether it is a side affect of the feature that joins words
>>that were on separate lines with a dash at the end of the first part of
>>the word. I wouldn't like the feature to not be used even if it
>>sometimes messes up. Joining all the separated words would be a lot more
>>work judging by some of the messes I've seen in books that were small
>>paperbacks scanned with software that retained all the formatting,
>>desirable and otherwise. :-)
>>
>>I just got Kurzweil 10 a couple days ago and I'm playing with as many
>>features as possible without actually having much to scan. I really need
>>an opertunity to visit a library. I think I'm finally feeling okay
>>enough of the time to start scanning again. Monday I actually had to
>>dust my scanner, which showed me just how pathetic I had become. :-)
>>
>>Sarah Van Oosterwijck
>>Assistive Technology Trainer
>>http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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