[bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted Victoria

  • From: "David Carter" <dhcarter1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:02:48 -0500

Regarding words containing spaces:

I wonder if the spaces could be missing hyphens. I've found that, sometimes, hyphens are not recognized when converting the image to text. To see if this is what's happening, under tools/reading, set line endings to be respected by the editor. Then check the book to see if the breaks are at the ends of lines. If so, often playing with the brightness setting will help in the OCR engine's ability to pick up the hyphens. Using the optimize scan function is a good place to start, but I've found raising or lowering the brightness setting from that recommended by K1000 will sometimes give better results.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bud Schwab" <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 12:24 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted Victoria


Hi,

I am using the latest version of k1000 and usually use the Scansoft engine version 12.6 fast, but do use the other ones at times also. The scanner is an Epson 3170. I'm also using dectalk and windoweyes which shouldn't have anything to do with it I'm sure. I think I've had this problem with words being divided with a space before but this last book seemed to be the worst. I should do some experimenting and find a page with has that problem and then trying rescanning it with various settings and engines and see if I can pin it down.
Thanks for the interest.

Bud

At 11:52 PM 3/16/2006, you wrote:
What version of what software do you use to scan? What scanning engine to you use and what version (example scansoft version such and such, or fine reader version such and such)?

E.


At 11:28 PM 3/16/2006, you wrote:

Hi Gang,

I just submitted Victoria by Knut Hamsun. This is the one that I have been asking all the questions about rank spelling. I found over 400 errors in it including a lot of words that had a space in the middle of them. I think I have it all cleaned up and it should be easy to validate. I'm still trying to find out why there were so many split words in it. I don't know if it's something about my scanning settings or what. If anybody has any ideas I'd like to hear them.
Happy validating
Thanks. .


Bud Schwab
W 6 Z Y P
Malibu, California

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