If I understand you, your scans come out as ark files. Can you convert them to Word/ Then you can save them rtf files. I can tell you how to get rid of the paragraph symbols at the end of the lines in Word, in one fell swoop, if you are careful. It it's what I did for a couple of your books when Carrie put them on the download list for me to fix Cindy Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites below Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List Books Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List --- On Tue, 4/6/10, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Problem with Open Book > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 5:05 PM > Some of you will remember that quite > some time ago I had a problem with my Open Book 6 such that > it was inserting paragraph breaks after every single line in > my scans. After getting various suggestions on how to stop > it and after none of them worked I finally gave up and just > submitted them that way while placing a note in the comments > section asking the proofreader to remove them. Since last > night and into today I have been in telephone and email > contact with both Bookshare and Freedom Scientific technical > support. What it comes down to is that my solution is no > longer exceptable. A lot of proofreaders have the same > problem that I have in not having the software or expertise > that allows those breaks to be easily removed and others > either do not understand the problem or do not read the > comments and submit what they think is a perfectly good > proofed book and it has to be sent back. Even when a proofer > uses the 27 step process described in the manual, that is > not an ideal solution either. I have been told that for one > thing it is an advanced technique that is beyond some > proofers and for another thing it really only removes maybe > 80 to 90 per cent of the unwanted breaks. What it comes down > to is that I am going to have to solve the problem by either > upgrading my software -- an expensive prospect that I would > like to avoid -- or find a solution within my current > software or else quit scanning and go back to proofreading. > Even if it is a bit more work I prefer scanning because that > way I am more likely to get to work on something I am > actually interested in. When I skim the checkout list it is > clear that most of you do not entirely share my tastes. > Right now I would like to ask a couple of questions. First, > since people come and go here I want to ask if there is > anyone present now who knows how to make Open Book stop > this. I doubt that I will get a satisfactory answer to that > one because Freedom Scientific technical support today knew > of no such settings either. Secondly, let me describe the > next step that I have worked out with a certain Bookshare > employee. The next step is that I should scan something in > RTF rather than ARK and converting it. Now, once, a long > time ago, I had the idea that since I had to convert it to > RTF anyway I would just scan it that way in the first place. > There was some kind of problem with that which I don't > remember, but whatever it was I decided that it wouldn't > work. Now I am trying again and I don't remember how. I went > into my settings and changed the default format to RTF and > then I created a new blank document, but when I looked at it > it had an ARK extension. I went ahead and scanned a few > pages into it and they still had the line break problem. I > then converted it to RTF and it still had the line break > problem. I then created a new document that turned out to > have an ARK extension too and converted it to RTF while > there was nothing in it. I then had a blank document with an > RTF extension. I scanned a few pages into that and it still > had the same problem. The guy at Bookshare said that he > didn't really think that constituted scanning in RTF, so he > asked me to ask the list how I could scan in RTF. Once I do > so I am supposed to email the result to him. So, does anyone > know how to do that? And let me add one more question. How > much does it cost to upgrade to the latest version of Open > Book and, if I went for Kurzweil instead, how much would > they cost if I already have Open Book 6? I would hate to go > that route because, even though I have added a few reasons > for volunteering since I started, including that I just > enjoy it, the main reason for becoming a volunteer in the > first place was to accumulate credits and defray the cost of > a subscription. I really don't have a lot of money to play > with. > > > _ _ _ > > "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one > fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss > all the other possible gods, you will understand why I > dismiss yours" > Stephen Roberts > > > The Militant: > http://www.themilitant.com > Pathfinder Press: > http://www.pathfinderpress.com > Granma International: > http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.