Elizabeth, though I agree that page numbers are useful, there is a
wide variety of OCR technology in use by submitters. K1000 handles
page numbers fairly well, and I know you're used to that. However,
Openbook and Omnipage make a mess of most headers and page
numbers. Requiring page breaks in files was relatively easy to
enforce, especially since most OCR packages insert them
automatically. Page numbering is not an automated feature in
Openbook, though it might be in K1000. I could go in and guess at
page numbers if it were a requirement, but would my guess be
accurate? Probably not since I'd just number the pages in order. If
I did that, it would be the equivalent of what the Bookshare tools do
now, so you'd get the same results. As a validater, you may have no
way of knowing how accurate my page numbers are without access to the
print book, so how could you standardize the process? Most of our
submitters don't even strip headers right now. Do you think that
they will make time to check each page number? I know for sure that
I wouldn't. I'd strip headers automatically, use Word to number my
pages, and let the powers that be figure it out on their end.
Monica Willyard
Cannot imagine what is taking them so long in changing so that page numbers are a requirment. On the other hand, we had talked about getting rid of .txt files for over eighteen months before they finally were banned. I guess these things take a long long time to resolve somehow.
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