Rick, When I scan a book it is always one that I want to read so as I go
along I delete the header information leaving the page number intact. I only
move a number to the top of the page if it is at the bottom because a new
chapter has begun on that page. If you have a scanning program such as
Kurzweil, they have a header remover but the problem is that lots of times
these headers are in fancy script and are not read consistently the same;
this is why I remove them manually. We all agree with you that we need
better direction from Bookshare and hope that eventually this will happen.
If I am validating a book, I do not remove headers without the permission of
the submitter. I hope this information is helpful to you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Headers question for scanning
I have a question for scanning books for submission.
As I understand it, there is something called a stripper, which looks to the
top of each page for the page number, and strips out the text that is there,
which is usually repeated text like title on one page, chapter title or
author on the other.
Since as a listening reader to this book, the repetitive text is not really
essential and mostly just a distraction from the narrative, I like the Daisy
books I have downloaded from Bookshare where the page numbers are all that I
hear. I figure this must be a recent thing, since many other Bookshare
books I have read do have the header text in there.
Now, my queistion -- Should we as scanners of the book remove this text? I have heard folks talk about moving page numbers to top of page. But I have not heard yet if we should remove the text.
Hoping to start scanning The Big Bam, the new biography of Babe Ruth this weekend.
If this is so, perhaps it could be stated in the information for the new Bookshare members when they begin to scan and submit to our collection.
Thanks.
Rik
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