[bksvol-discuss] Re: newbie question
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:39:41 -0700 (PDT)
The OCR is ABBYY - I don't know the version. I had to work late today,
and couldn't get to the office. Will try to get to it soon.
Carrie
--- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What do you use for the OCR? Just curious.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrie Karnos" <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:03 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: newbie question
>
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Guido D. Corona
> > > IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> > > IBM Research,
> > > Phone: (512) 838-9735
> > > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
> > > http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 06/22/2004 01:50 PM
> > > Please respond to
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> > > Subject
> > > [bksvol-discuss] Re: newbie question
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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