Hi Valerie, Yes, I've noticed that scans done with OpenBook have a blank line between paragraphs too. I never found this to be a problem, except for the times when I'd like to be able to easily see where white space between scenes should have been in the book, and can't always find this in scans done with OpenBook. But maybe I'm remembering incorrectly as I think it's been three years since I proofread a scan created by OpenBook. That's a long, long time technologically speaking, and things often change for the better. Hope you all can figure out how to fix the paragraphing issues. Perhaps a different recognition engine would do a more accurate job? Just a thought. Happy scanning and proofreading everyone! Mayrie _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 2:56 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Help with Software, Please! Thanks, Mayrie! I knew you could help her with the ASCII replacement. The odd thing is it isn't all paragraphing missing, but every page has some problem and some pages have no paragraphs. In this particular case, I have little reason to believe it is the book since it is a clear, high quality print. When paragraphing is present, there is a blank line between paragraphs, something I think routine in Open Book and easily stripped. Valerie On Aug 6, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote: Hi Valerie and Sandi, Thanks, Valerie, for clarifying exactly what you're seeing. All right quotes is very weird, but is consistent with what I used to see when proofreading scans done with OpenBook. I have no idea why OpenBook does that particular odd thing. Here is the find and replace sequence for replacing smart quotes with regular quotes, Sandi. I should have included it in my last note. Just in case turning off the autoformatting doesn't fix the problem completely. I'm including instructions for removing both opening and closing quotes just for the sake of thoroughness. I suggest running both steps, just in case it helps, and because it only takes about five extra seconds to do the extra step. I hope it helps and that you can figure out why all of your paragraph marks disappeared. I've never seen that before except with Kurzweil 3000. Good luck, and happy scanning and proofreading! See below for the instructions for find and replace in Word to replace smart quotes with regular quotes. Mayrie Convert smart quotes to standard quotes To Remove Smart Quotes Using Find And Replace: In the find box type: ^0147 In the replace box type: ^0034 Replace all. In the find box type: ^0148 In the replace box type: ^0034 Replace all. _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 1:44 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Help with Software, Please! And just for everyone's information, aside from many (not all) pages missing many or all paragraph breaks and the only right quotes appearing so grammar check told her to eliminate the preceding space, Sadi did an amazing job for first projects, including being a real sweetheart and moving pagination to the top to help me navigate easier. So glad to have another enthusiastic scanner, so hope someone can help her determine if there is a setting to better retain paragraphing in particular. also, if someone (Mayrie?) can give Sandi the ASCII code for right curly to be substituted with straight quotes in a global find and replace before she edits, that would be helpful. Odd that they all appeared to be right quotes. Thanks, folks! Valerie On Aug 6, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Sandi Ryan wrote: Hi Group, I have received excellent feedback from my first two scanned books, and they contained a problem I'd rather not perpetuate. Somewhere in the process, my document was stripped of paragraph breaks. I promise I did not do this with keystrokes or menus. Also, the quotation marks are curly rather than straight. I use Word 2007 and OpenBook 8 at this point for scanning and correction. I scanned in RTF, and the text came out really well. What is happening to cause this problem? If you can help, please either reply to this message or e-mail me off-list atsjryan2@xxxxxxxxxx Thanks much. Sandi