[bksvol-discuss] asking for help and scanno errors
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:11:47 -0800 (PST)
Hi, Tony,
Any time you have a book that has errors, if I can get
the book from the library I'm happy to check for you.
Don't fee shy about asking. I think that's one area in
which I can be most help.
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-- 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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