[bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for scanning
- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:13:25 -0400
Hi, Jill and all. That's one time I do remove the headers. If they scan as
junk, the stripper won't usually remove them. I don't have the later version
of Kurzweil that removes the headers automatically, and I read all my scans
completely through before I submit them, so I usually catch things like
garbled text. If it's too bad, I do just remove the headers altogether, but
if it's not too bad, and if I can, I fix them up. I guess I just feel more
comfortable giving the stripper something to munch rather than removing them
and take the chance that something I wanted protected gets munched instead.
Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 2:10 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for scanning
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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