[bksvol-discuss] Re: Converting KES to RTF
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:14:05 -0400
What a great idea. Never occurred to me.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:15 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Converting KES to RTF
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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