HI Sarah:
I have a suggestion, why don't we create a list of tips for best scanning
results as well as validating. I will ask Rui to post it on his
booksharescans page and perhaps Jake won't mind posting it on his page as
well. So if you want to write something you can. If you'd like we can
work together on it also.
If anyone wants to write tips you can send it to me and I will make sure
that posted on Rui's page. I think I still have Donna's post on scanning
with fine reader. I will include that too.
So what does everyone think? Comments? Suggestions?
Grace
silvara@xxxxxxx
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From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 3:23 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page breaks in K1000
Different software is not needed. It is only necessary for people to
leave in the page numbers when submitting a book, so a validator is able
to confirm that page breaks and page numbers occur as matched pairs.
Submitters also need to set their software for two page scanning when
they are scanning books by laying the whole book flat on the scanner.
Scanning software does not ordinarily leave out page breaks, and it has
already been determined that the bookshare tools recognize section
breaks, like those used by Fine Engine, as page breaks. They can be
changed for a validators convenience to page breaks, but leaving them
would be fine as far as bookshare is concerned. As Gerald pointed out,
they are not the same as soft page breaks, which don't exist at all in
the saved file. They are only a product of your Word processor's
imagination, or it's printer margin settings if you prefer the technical
explanation. :-)
Page break loss is usually caused by someone saving the scanned book in
TXT format, but it does seem to occasionally happen for some other
reason that no one has been able to explain. :-)
More than anything else bookshare seems to need to provide a section of
website for their volunteers. They need to collect resources explaining
how to supply bookshare with high quality scans, and how validators can
insure what they review is acceptable. Currently bookshare only
provides a very short document explaining what is acceptable, but giving
no hint about how to go about checking those things.
I'd be happy to help with that project, but I don't think I am willing
to take the responsibility for explaining standards and techniques on my
own. I could write up some tips and put them on my webpage, but there
may be those that would disagree with what I said. I also don't know
how people would ever know to look there when my page has nothing to do
with bookshare.
I know bookshare doesn't have the time to provide these resources, but
they might at least consider accepting tip pages written by volunteers
and be willing to post them if they find the content of those pages
acceptable. Again, I don't know who to suggest this too, and I am far
from the first person to express these thoughts.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
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