[bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions on Proofing
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 09:12:24 -0400
Hi Mary,
Based on a suggestion that came in earlier, Susan, my lovely wife, is going
to go through drawing boxes around difficult areas and then reprocess the
images using OCR to hopefully make said screen shots easier to deal with.
Enjoy,
cdh
Chris Hofstader
CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:53 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions on Proofing
Hi Chris,
If the screen shots are only illustrations of what things
will look like, you can simply note that. For example, you might
write the following surrounded by parentheses to show that this
isn't a part of the text. (There is a picture of a screen shot
described above.)
Perhaps that might help some to cut down on your work? If your
screen shots contain material not explained in the text of the book,
you might be in a different situation. But if they are serving as
illustrations, you can simply note that they exist.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 04:31 AM 5/27/2008, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Sorry for the pile of emails but my lovely wife Susan and I are the new
kids
>on the scanning and proofing block and we run into different curiosities as
>we proceed. This question applies to our Drupal book. For those who
don't
>work on web sites, Drupal is a program that makes building really
>interesting web sites relatively simple.
>
>The book has a lot of screen shots (mentioned in my last message) in which
>OmniPage 15 recognizes quite a bit of text but never all of it and it often
>thinks that a border is a letter "I" or "l" or just some schmootz that it
>ignores.
>
>Susan, my lovely wife, was planning on making up descriptions for these
>screen shots in a future phase of the reviewing process. She estimated
that
>this would take a lot of time as there are a lot of these shots. She added
>that virtually all of these screen shots do nothing more than show how
>Drupal will render a page visually when using features described in the
text
>that can be read nicely.
>
>Susan has meticulously gone through most if not all of the code samples and
>fixed the odd exclamation point that was recognized as an "l" and a few
>other single character mistakes that can make code examples boggle one's
>mind as parsers rarely have enough intelligence to figure out, "He didn't
>mean 'l' but rather, he wanted an '!' in that spot" which will lead to hair
>pulling to try to figure out why copy and paste from the document didn't
>work.
>
>How valuable will it be to spend a ton of time trying to come up with text
>augmentations and annotations to include the screen shots? Keep in mind
>that the same time would otherwise be spent proofing other books which may
>be a bit less challenging as regards graphical content.
>
>Happy Hacking,
>cdh
>
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