I noticed the problems with wizzard as well, perhaps the guillotine
beheaded characters, or something.
Ner
At 03:33 PM 6/22/2004, you wrote:
Thanks Carrie. Perhaps sysmic tremblings during the scan? What OCR and settings did you use?
Guido
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Hi Guido,
I hate to say this, but I scanned the book at the Bookshare office, using
their high-speed scanner. Who knows why it did such a poor job. Usually
it produces better quality text. Maybe the scanner needs to be cleaned,
maybe the OCR reader didn't have something set correctly, I dunno. Since
I scanned the book and submitted it, I feel the responsibility to correct
the book so it can be a happy productive member of the bookshare database.
Carrie
--- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Carrie, if you have access to a print copy at Bookshare, why waste
> your
> time on this mangled etext copy? Three minutes in the high-speed Canon
> scanner will generate a new image deck, and 20 minutes of unattended
> text
> recognition will generate a brand-new etext copy without dropped off
> words
> for you or someone else to validate at a lower cost and higher end
> quality.
>
> Guido
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> Hi Rachel,
>
> The book is at the Bookshare office, so I can get the book and clean up
> the places where there are missing words. Do you have a list of the
> pages
> that need to be cleaned up? If so, please send the list to me
> (ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx) and I'll fix the pages. I'd much rather spend some
> time to make it legible than leave it as is.
>
> Thanks, Carrie
>
> --- Rachel <rherold@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > hello all,
> > I just validated Christopher Stasheff's A Wizard in Midgard. I
> cleaned
> > it
> > up quite a bit but there were places where half a sentence was just
> > plain
> > missing. Or where the line of gibberish wasn't decipherable.
> > Overall, the story was quite readable when I got thru with it but the
> > occasional missing half of a sentence or missing sentence might be
> > rather
> > annoying.
> > I rated the quality as poor but accepted my edited version.
> > Is this what you all would have done?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rachel Herold
> > rherold@xxxxxxx
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