[bksvol-discuss] asking for help and scanning errors
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:20:02 -0800 (PST)
Hi, Tony,
Any time you'd like me to check a book for scanning
errors that you can't figure out, please don't be
afraid to ask. I love to help in this area, and I feel
it's one in which I can be of most use. Also, I've
found, by getting books from the library and helping
people in this way, that I've come across authors
whose books I'd never have read otherwise, and found
books that I've enjoyed, e.g., WEB Griffin -- at least
one of his series.
As for the similarity between lower case r and t --
I'm assuming that you are blind and cannot actually
see the difference between the two letters, but when
they're lower case and in certain fonts, they are not
dissimilar, and some scanners like mine do exchange
them, depending on what shape the book is in, i.e. how
old it is, whether the page is a little yellowed or
faded, and what the next letter is. I find that r n is
often confused with m in words, and the letter m is
used instead of i n. I can't think of specific
instances in which I remember r and t being used
instead of each other, but looking at the letters as I
am now, I can see how the scanner might possibly make
that mistake, depending on the book. (smile)
Cindy
-- Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi. For the most part, I agree with you completely.
> I am not going to ask
> a sighted person to check a book either. If I am in
> doubt, I will leave
> the word alone, even though I know it is wrong. One
> recent example is
> puRhed or some such. It is obviously wrong but I
> have no idea what it
> could be. I am not going to take a chance on
> inventing a word and possibly
> exposing myself and/or bookshare to law suits
> because the core content of
> the book was changed. Someone else can get and
> rescan the printed book if
> it is a big enough deal. Finally, I'll just add
> that while I don't read
> print, I do know that the shapes of letters are
> different, so t instead of
> r could not be an OCR error even if it looks like
> one because the shape of
> the letter is different. But then, one particularly
> funny scanning error
> is "taco" instead of "fate."
>
> At 10:08 AM 3/8/2005 -0600, you wrote:
> >It is much more likely that r and t would be
> confused by the OCR
> >software than by the publishers. Yes, they do make
> mistakes, but you
> >should normally be able to guess correctly about
> errors. The more
> >experience you have in editing the more you learn
> what is within the
> >relm of possibility for scannos, and what obviously
> was a mistake in the
> >book. You know that we can't always make the books
> we scan perfect, so
> >we don't have to give up scanning and editing if we
> are blind and can't
> >always check the print book. I am not going to
> waste the time of sited
> >people asking them to check every little mistake
> when there is about a
> >one in a million chance that the mistake is not a
> scanno. If I
> >accidently change/correct a letter that I am
> certain was a scanno, and
> >it really was a mistake in the book, I'll just
> pretend that my change
> >was a scanno. ;-)
>
>
>
>
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