The errors in question are scanner generated, not from the book itself. There
are times when my Scanner says a letter as a number. Or sometimes thinks one
letter is in fact a different letter. Instead of scanning it a bunch of times,
I try to fix what I can. It’s basically OCR messing up.
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On Sep 28, 2018, at 2:07 AM, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wait a minute. Roger I get the impression, perhaps erroneously, that Chelsea
means the error she sees are in the print book, not just her scan; but
those,unfortunately, she can't correct; you have to leave those alone,
Chelsea; all you can do is write a note in the Comments space when you
check submit the book is that there are a lot of errors (spelling,
punctuation, grammatical et al -- in the scan that are in the book you are
scanning; if I'm misunderstanding you then Roger is correct and you have to
change them; or the proofreader will; proofreader will compare your scan with
a print copy of the book and will write a comment that the book has been
compared with the scanned file and is exactly the same as teh print book,
including all errors
hth
Cindy
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 8:52 PM Roger Loran Bailey
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let me add this about how I do it. I have not always done it this way,
but after getting so much experience I have developed this routine
because it seems to work better. I scan one page at a time and keep my
settings in one page mode. I then read through each page before starting
the next one and correct any scanning errors I come across. Then I scan
the next page and read through it too. I then do a spell check on both
of the pages in one spell check session to pick up any errors that I
might have missed. This slows me down quite a bit, but it gets the best
scan I can do and I am sure that my proofreader appreciates it. Scanning
errors still do get past me though. Formatting is not my forte, so I
leave that for the proofreader, but if you have the proper software -
and I think Kurzweil is the proper software - and know how to do it it
would be a good idea to format too. That is, make the proofreading as
much as a formality as you can. The proofreading will still not really
be a formality though. Even with my preproofing I don't think I have
ever uploaded one of my scans that was error free. That becomes apparent
when the proofreader emails me with questions about scanning errors and
I find myself asking myself how could I have missed them.
On 9/27/2018 11:37 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81
for DMARC) wrote:
Not only can you repair the errors, but you are encouraged to do so.
Please correct any scanning errors you come across and if you miss any
the proofreader will hopefully catch them. Your scanning software
should have settings that will insert all page breaks, but until you
find that setting do insert the missing page breaks. I think you are
scanning two pages at a time in one page mode. But if you want to take
extra time - or it might be less time because you will likely not have
so many scanning errors to correct - scan in one page mode one page at
a time rather than two pages at a time. I find that will reduce the
number of scanning errors.
On 9/27/2018 10:32 PM, Chelsea wrote:
Hi everyone!
So, tonight, I have begun scanning one of the books I have received.
So far, it’s doing an OK job, but I am definitely seeing some errors.
Lots of 11s in place of h and stuff like that. I feel compelled to
clean up some of them, especially ones that I know I can fix. Can I
do this, or do I have to leave it the way that is, even if it’s
pretty bad?
Also, right now, my scanner is saving the file as a KES document.
When I have finished scanning the book, and save it as an RTF for
book share, will it put in the page breaks, or do I have to do that
manually? The reason I ask is because my scanner identifies the page
breaks, but only for each newly scanned page. In other words, there
are actually two print pages on one scanned page if that makes sense.
Thanks for all your help!
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