[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about chapter titles
- From: "Mihaly, Katie" <Katie.Mihaly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:35:20 -0500
No problem! I'll let you know when the book comes in.
Katie
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Mercy
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There you are again...my lifesaver from the Dolly biography. <smile> So
I was right. There was something there. If you could get the book and be
willing to do that, that would be great. Thanks so much for offering.
I've read almost 200 pages of it so far and that so far seems to be the
only thing that didn't scan. Thanks again.
Mihaly, Katie wrote:
> Hi Julie, I just looked at the book with Amazon's "Look inside this
> book." I think it is like you said, some of the chapters have
something
> under the chapter title and some don't. It looks like for the most
part
> it is the city & date when the chapter took place, i.e. "Springfield
> May 1860." It's also in italics which I understand doesn't always scan
> well. I can get a copy of the book & send you the text & where it is
> supposed to be, if you want.
> Katie
>
>
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> Mercy
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:38 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about chapter titles
>
> I know. That's why I didn't adjust the settings. I was getting a good
> scan on everything else and I knew if I did that, it would probably
mess
>
> up the text, so I didn't.
>
> EVAN REESE wrote:
>
>> Part of the problem with recognizing chapter titles in some books is
>> that, if you adjust your settings to get the best quality on the
text,
>>
>
>
>> you can lose OCR quality on anything that may be substantially
>> different in font type, contrast, or whatever.
>>
>> Evan
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie & Miss Mercy"
>> <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:03 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about chapter titles
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi, Kathy. Yeah, that would be nice, but I do understand that there
>>> are so many variants of fonts that that would be pretty difficult I
>>> guess, but it would still be nice. What I'm working on now is a
>>> historical fiction book and a lot of the fiction titles I've done
>>> don't have tables of contents, although some have. I'm not that
lucky
>>>
>
>
>>> with this one though. <smile>
>>>
>>> Kathy Hester wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thankfully, the books I've scanned that had chapter titles have
>>>> tables of contents. They're usually written in a font that will
>>>> scan, so I just went by the numbers and copied and pasted the
>>>> title. However, I do realize that they're not all like that. I've
>>>> just been lucky in my choices, but it does look like the OCR
>>>> programs need to work on some of the font sizes and styles that are
>>>> sometimes used for titles. Maybe we'd all better write to
Kurzweil,
>>>>
>
>
>>>> Freedom Scientific, or the companies that design the particular OCR
>>>> programs we use and suggest it. After all, that could be of
>>>> tremendous help. Even students--maybe especially students--need to
>>>> be able to read titles, in order to read assignments.
>>>>
>>>> I do realize this isn't helping you, but I just thought it might be
>>>> a thought worth passing along.
>>>>
>>>> Kathy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> "The LORD bless you and keep you;
>>>>> the LORD make His face shine upon you
>>>>> and be gracious to you;
>>>>> the LORD turn His face toward you
>>>>> and give you peace."
>>>>> Numbers 6:24-26
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie & Miss Mercy"
>>>> <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:52 PM
>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about chapter titles
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a question regarding chapter titles. I just finished a book
>>>>
> in
>
>>>> which some of the chapters had titles that didn't scan because of
>>>>
> font.
>
>>>> Well, wouldn't you know it, I'm working on another one of the same
>>>> type,
>>>> where the numbers scanned but junk scanned where there might be
>>>>
> titles.
>
>>>> is this really important? My perfectionistic side screams that I
>>>>
> need
>
>>>> someone else to help with this book as well, but as long as I have
>>>>
> the
>
>>>> numbers, are the chapter titles really that important? I want my
>>>>
> books
>
>>>> to reflect the printed copy as much as I can, but two books in a
row
>>>> with the same problem...?<smile> Thanks for any feedback.
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