[bksvol-discuss] Re: PDF Files

I don't think it does unless it was in the original, but I haven't seen this happen so far, smile. 


Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
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Does the scanning software break the file down into true paragraphs? I actually had this problem when reading some materials that were in some Vistas files for world religions that was, in fact, a computerized learning system. (That particular issue had nothing to do with BookShare.) 

CL

On Aug 14, 2010, at 9:09 PM, Shelley L. Rhodes wrote:


I suspect and this is probably a large guess on my part.
That we the volunteer accessing said PDF submitted by said publisher in some point in the future,
Would have to run it through Either Adobe, or Kurzweil, or Openbook to "unlock" the PDF and make it so it is an .rtf so that Bookshare can process it, and if it is a PDF where it is the images of the pages not the actual text created in a word processor one of us would have to OCR and then edit it.
I did read that article too, so know where he or she is coming from but it hasn't happened yet. 

Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009) 

----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:22 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: PDF Files
Oh, Arghhhh! There was apparently an article which I never read that indicated that some publishers (small ones) would submit their books in pdf format and that they would need to be proofread. The person who asked the question had read this article. It is apparently an article on why volunteers are still an integral part of Bookshare. So this person was wondering how one would proofread such a file. I don't guess I completely understood the question. Sorry to cause all this trouble, for I know pretty much the rules governing volunteering at Bookshare; I just haven't had the time to do it much lately. 
Thanks for all your help folks. *smile*

Cindy Lou

On Aug 14, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Monica Willyard wrote:


Cindy, we don't accept pdf files or files directly from a publisher.
All books we submit are supposed to have paragraphs and page breaks.
If a publisher wants to donate a book, it needs to go through
Bookshare itself. We aren't supposed to submit e-books that we buy
somewhere unless we get prior permission from Bookshare staff. From
what I understand from Bookshare staff, e-books we buy somewhere
don't have the same legal standing as print books.

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