[bksvol-discuss] Re: Dictionary on Astronomy
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:07:43 -0500
Steven,
Thanks for the correction. I appreciate it.
Pratik
Pratik Patel
Interim Director
Office of Special Services
Queens College
Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
The City University of New York
ppatel@xxxxxx
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Baum
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:02 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dictionary on Astronomy
Hi Pratik.
Those language settings do not effect recognition. They only effect
reading. They should not be necessary while you are scanning and
recognizing, though they won't cause any harm. They can be a little
frightening when reading, as short paragraphs with a lot of proper names
can cause the K1000 to suddenly switch into a different reading voice.
Stephen
At 10:35 AM 12/23/2004, you wrote:
>Shelly,
>
>I would change the 300 DPI and gray scale to 400 DPI and gray scale. One
>other thing I forgot to mention along with the language settings. Instead
>of the typical Kurzweil default of recognizing language setting per page,
>use per paragraph language recognition setting.
>
>Pratik
>
>
>
>Pratik Patel
>Interim Director
>Office of Special Services
>Queens College
>Director
>CUNY Assistive Technology Services
>The City University of New York
> ppatel@xxxxxx
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shelley L. Rhodes
>Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:22 AM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dictionary on Astronomy
>
>What about "Simple scientific formulas:" I see this one in the list of
>recognitions.
>
>Since it is on Grayscale with 300 dpi already it is going to be slow,
smile.
>
>Will give it a try Pratik.
>
>As I have another dictionary to do after this to replace the fair one in
the
>
>collection.
>
>Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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>
> -- Vance Havner
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:15 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dictionary on Astronomy
>
>
>Hello All,
>
>Just a little hint: When scanning books/material that you know will
>contain some foreign types of characters, I'd recommend that you change
your
>recognition engine settings. Instead of just recognizing English, set your
>recognition engine to recognize English, Latin, Greek and French. The
>recognition process will take some time, but your results will be
>incredible.
>
>HTH.
>
>Pratik
>
>
>
>Pratik Patel
>Interim Director
>Office of Special Services
>Queens College
>Director
>CUNY Assistive Technology Services
>The City University of New York
> ppatel@xxxxxx
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kellie Hartmann
>Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:29 PM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dictionary on Astronomy
>
>Shelley, those pronunciation guides often contain symbols that aren't going
>to scan right no matter what you do. For example, I've never seen a schwa
>recognized by OCR. These pronunciations could probably be considered
>supplementary--they're useful but not absolutely necessary to grasp the
>concepts. I would mark it good, then explain about the pronunciation guides
>in the long synopsis field. That way anyone who looks at this will realize
>that this feature isn't available. At least the dictionary could still be
>used to find spellings, not to mention definitions.
>Kellie
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