[bksvol-discuss] Re: Benetech official ruling on spelling mistakes
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:32:19 -0500
Actually T and R, if lower case can be confused if your scanner glass is
dirty or if you have off despecle. As can tn be confused for a M and vice
versa. Theese normally are cuased by a brightness situation, but I have
been getting them in gray scale. particularly with particular fonts, the
typed t, and typed r, do share similar characteristics, as do the letter s
and the number 5, the letter capital Q, and the letter O.
You do indeed learn from experience, and as someone brought up if the
publishers are having such a hissy fit, which frankly I don't see happening,
then it just gives us another bullet in our case for access to electronic
texts so that it doesn't happen.
Excellent raitings allow for errors, it says very few, but there is a reason
why it allows for them.
Because unless you have that book in front of you there is no way to
garantee perfection, though some of us come pretty darn close.
Me thinks I need to clean the scanner glass.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
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From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Benetech official ruling on spelling mistakes
Hi. For the most part, I agree with you completely. I am not going to ask
a sighted person to check a book either. If I am in doubt, I will leave
the word alone, even though I know it is wrong. One recent example is
puRhed or some such. It is obviously wrong but I have no idea what it
could be. I am not going to take a chance on inventing a word and possibly
exposing myself and/or bookshare to law suits because the core content of
the book was changed. Someone else can get and rescan the printed book if
it is a big enough deal. Finally, I'll just add that while I don't read
print, I do know that the shapes of letters are different, so t instead of
r could not be an OCR error even if it looks like one because the shape of
the letter is different. But then, one particularly funny scanning error
is "taco" instead of "fate."
At 10:08 AM 3/8/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>It is much more likely that r and t would be confused by the OCR
>software than by the publishers. Yes, they do make mistakes, but you
>should normally be able to guess correctly about errors. The more
>experience you have in editing the more you learn what is within the
>relm of possibility for scannos, and what obviously was a mistake in the
>book. You know that we can't always make the books we scan perfect, so
>we don't have to give up scanning and editing if we are blind and can't
>always check the print book. I am not going to waste the time of sited
>people asking them to check every little mistake when there is about a
>one in a million chance that the mistake is not a scanno. If I
>accidently change/correct a letter that I am certain was a scanno, and
>it really was a mistake in the book, I'll just pretend that my change
>was a scanno. ;-)
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