[bksvol-discuss] Re: Intro and questions
- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:36:20 -0400
Hello Lori, and welcome to the list.
Please don't say that you're "just" validating! Most of us do one or the
other, scan or validate, and they are both crucial to the process.
What program are you using to read your books? If JAWS and WindowEyes reads
the text fluently, then there's probably some other reason why there appears
to be only one character per line. If it was like that in reality, JAWS or
WindowEyes would read it character by character even in constant read mode.
Generally speaking, most of us will clean out junk characters around page
numbers or anywhere else they occur.
You have to be a little careful about doing a search and replace with extra
page breaks. First, in some books, there are blank pages in the print
edition. For instance, in some books, if the chapter ends on the righthand
page, when you turn the page, the lefthand page will be blank and the new
chapter will start at the top of the righthand page. In that case, the
blank page should be left in the scanned copy as it is consistent with the
print copy. However, we've noticed that sometimes, opening RTF files in
different programs can add in extra pages that shouldn't be there. E just
worked on a book I scanned and when she opened it in Kurzweil, it added in a
blank page between every page in the book. Still, doing a general search
and replace of page breaks, would take out all the page breaks, and we don't
want that either. It depends on which program you are using to edit the
file as to what might work.
Hope this isn't too confusing.
Thanks for volunteering with us.
Donna
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