[bksvol-discuss] Re: audio description, please? Bookshare on CBS news

  • From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:47:48 -0800 (PST)

Yes, you're right.  Despining a book takes a few minutes, scanning it takes a 
few minutes, running the OCR program takes a bit longer, maybe 15 minutes for a 
500 page book (currently). That's how I did the last Harry Potter book so fast. 
 Gustavo handed me the book at 9am, and by 11, I had chopped, scanned and OCRed 
it (this was when the OCR program took much longer to finish).  At 11:30, when 
I was validating the Harry Potter book, he came in and said he was getting 
phone calls from people saying "Where's the book?".  I said I wasn't done 
validating it, so he said "Upload it anyway.  You can make it perfect in a 
couple of days."  I uploaded it, he approved it, and within 2 minutes, the 
first person started downloading it.  In the next 36 hours, 250 people 
downloaded it.  When the next (and final) Harry Potter book comes out on July 
20th, I'm going to try to make it perfect (within a reasonable amount of time, 
of course) before uploading it.  We shall see if I succeed or
 not.
   
  Carrie

Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Oh my gosh 80 to 100 pages per minute. That is so
fast! No wonder you are able to submit so many books
Carrie. Is that how you will be able to have the new
Harry Potter in the collection the same day it is
released? It is too bad that publishers won't send you
the copies early like they do to people who review
their books.




Jamie in Michigan 

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