[bksvol-discuss] Re: Feeling like scanning, but don't know what to scan?
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:16:18 -0500
Hi Patty, I have scanned a lot of kids books which have a lot of pictures.
Actually a lot of nonfiction books do to. smile. I am right now removing
the junk left from "examples" from a book on all things about OCR. smile.
I would say go ahead and scan it. I have found that settings like grayscale
and 300 dpi or 400 dpi will usually net the best results with pictures.
Also, I keep column recognition on, it has gotten me in a fix once or twice,
but for the most part this helps keep books straight and the text organized
the way the author wanted it. If the text is outside the pictures the above
things will net you nice clean blocks of text and hopefully not a ton of
junk. Just remove the junk characters the !^&*(&$#%^ and so on as these are
not required, and then submit.
And smile. We allow for errors, smile, even if the seventy five messages
today says otherwise, Excellent says "very few errors" not No errors.
Patty take the plunge, and if you want some help with critiquing quality
let me know.
Smile, am looking forward to a distraction from studying norm and criterion
referenced exams, why high stakes testing is "important to the welfare" of
the nation and so on and so forth, sigh.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patti Johnson" <razz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Feeling like scanning, but don't know what to
scan?
Thanks for this message about ways to find books to scan, I am saving
this message for future reference. I must admit, having only been on this
list for a day or so I was beginning to wonder if I should even make the
effort to submit a book, because I don't know the first thing about how to
fix scans; all I know is how to scan and all this talk about submissions and
how accurate that we want them to be made me think that I could never offer
anything passable. I am still not sure if I should try or not. My question
is, what if your book has pictures in it, and particularly if it has a lot?
What do you do about that, if you don't know where they are? I have this
really neat book I want to submit but I am afraid it may not be scannable.
Oh, I scanned it once for myself and got the gist of it, but I don't know if
my copy is submitable. Thanks for listening to my ramble, take care, and I
will try to learn from you all, and maybe it will all click one day and I'll
try to submit something.
Patti
Dear Lord, help me to become the kind of person that my dog thinks I am.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rui" <rui@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 12:42 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Feeling like scanning, but don't know what to
scan?
> Hello my fellow booksharians:
> Feel like scanning something, but don't know what to scan?
>
> Ah yes, what a quandry of epic proportions.
>
> Well, fear not, you have 2 options
> First and foremost there is the Bookshare-maintained wishlist. This can
> be
> found at:
> http://www.bookshare.org/web/WishList.html
> Here you can find books that other booksharians are longing for.
>
>
> Secondly, there is the Rui-maintained "no book left behind list." This
> can
> be found at: http://members.cox.net/booksharescans/rejected.html
> These are books that were rejected by the innitial validater. However,
> just
> because the scan wasn't up to standard, does not mean that these books
> should not take there rightful place in the bookshare library.
>
> So in closing, I encourage all of you scanners to take a look at these two
> lists,
>
>
> --
> This Bookshare Public Service Announcement has been brought to you by, Rui
> The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of benetec,
> bookshare.org, their employees, blah, blah, etc etc,.
> (smile)
>
> -- Rui
> Bookshare.org Unofficial Volunteer Scanning Page
> http://members.cox.net/booksharescans
>
>
>
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