[bksvol-discuss] Re: Open Book Question

  • From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:24:32 -0700

Mayrie, Thanks for these suggestions for fixing the problem. I will certainly be able to use them. 


Lori
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:08 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Open Book Question



Hi Lori,

I don't use OpenBook.  But I have encountered the insertion of extra
paragraph marks where they don't belong. It doesn't happen much for me, but as a matter of course, for every book, I try to remove as many of them as I 
safely can.

The way that I do this is a little tedious, but works on most
things.  I wouldn't use this method in anything that contains poetry, but
then, doing poetry, you don't want to remove extra paragraph marks as they
are the only way to know where lines actually begin and end.  Sorry, I
digress.

Do you use Microsoft Word to fix up your books?  If so, you can use
the find and replace dialogue to get rid of most of the unwanted paragraph
marks.  If you put ^p followed immediately by a lower case letter in the
find box, then type space followed immediately by the same lower case letter 
in the replace box, you can remove all instances of that lower case letter
coming after a paragraph mark.  I do this with every lower case letter of
the alphabet.  I also do a find and replace for quotation mark space
quotation mark and replace it with quotation mark ^p quotation mark without 
any spaces.  This will separate into proper paragraphs dialogue that gets
run together by the OCR process. I find this happens in almost every book. 


These processes won't get rid of absolutely every single occurrence
of a paragraph mark where it doesn't belong, but it does get rid of most of 
them.
I'm sorry that I don't have a solution to your real issue. But these things 
might help while you are looking for a real solution, or the initial cause
of the problem.

Good luck!

Mayrie

-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori Castner
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:24 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Open Book Question

Well, you have provided me with information though.  As you seem very
familiar with Open Book, I wonder if you found any of the ocr engines to be 
better than the others and especially if one ocr engine caused this
paragraph problem less frequently. Open book 7.02 has omnipage, recognita, 
and fine reader.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Lori
----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:56 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Open Book Question



Hi, Lori. I had the same problem when I used to use Openbook for
scanning. I never did figure out what was going on. I wish I knew how
to help you.


On 9/26/08, Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I hope that someone with a knowledge of Open Book can help me with this
problem.

I am currently using Open Book 7.02 and have selected the fine reader
engine.

Recently many of my scans have forced line engings which appear in .rtf
as a
paragraph mark.  I do not have exact view checked, so I don't know why
this
problem is occurring.  There is a fix to use in the files when the
problem
has occurred, but I would rather avoid the problem, and have not had
books
scan in this way until recently.  Can anyone suggest what I might do to
keep
these line breaks from appearing in the files.

Thanks.

Cat Lover Lori




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