Pardon me, Mike, but what is Jarte? I've never heard of it. Regards, Kim.
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OK, I downloaded Jarte and opened one of the books I am scanning. I
looked
at the first few pages fairly carefully and skimmed the rest. As far as I
can tell, all the formatting that I want in there and that I know
bookshare
would like to have in there is correct. So, I saved a copy in Jarte. The
Jarte copy is half the size of the Word version.
I am not really blaming all the bloat on Word. I use Omnipage for OCR,
but
through the "acquire text" feature in Word (because the user interface in
Omnipage is completely opaque to me) and I am pretty sure that in an
effort
to format the page like what is scanned, Omnipage puts many format changes
in as Word "styles." Then I come in and change the formatting to be more
uniform and Word does not eliminate the old styles, but creates new ones
in
the form "old style+make all text times new roman 12 point." Jarte, not
caring about styles, cleans that all out and leaves only actual changes in
font, italics, bold and so on (as I would think Word would do, but no).
I'm going to try scanning into Word, then doing the cleanup in Jarte and
see
how it goes (I'd pay Jarte money to have the acquire text feature).
And, the real test will be if bookshare accepts the the book.
Hmmm, where is a short book to try, I been into doing so many long books
lately, but I'd really like to see whether this works relatively soon.
Earthworks by Brian Aldiss, 128 pages. Africa is the last frontier...in a
starving and overpopulated world. A world gone dry. A world of horror
where literacy and thought are for machines only. Where cities are
behives
built on stilts to protect them from the chemicals which grow crops.
Where
penal institutions are collective farms. Where petty infractions condemn
men to work for the rest of their lives alongside robots tilling the dead
soil. The world is a place where corpses stalk the earth, for there is no
longer room in the ground. Africa is the last hope...
Not very cheery, but it is short (compared to the 750 page book that the
phrase "Rackin' threes" that I mentioned in another email comes from).
Misha
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