[bksvol-discuss] Re: If text is too good
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:04:23 -0700 (PDT)
Jim,
I'm sure your efforts are greatly appreciated, both by
those who validate your books and by those who later
read them. It's time-consuming, I know, but you
should have a good feeling about what your doing.
Cindy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Nuttall
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 2:26 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If text is too good
>
>
> Hello grpup:
>
> As I say I'm new to submitting books to
> bookshare.org. This what I'm doing
> which takes more time than simply scanning a book.
> (1) I scan the book by
> chapter. (2) I spell check the book in the OCR
> program. (3) I save as rtf.
> (4) I take the document into a word processor whch
> strips out the bogus
> hyphenation words caused by book formating, since
> these are not needed. (5)
> but when I do that I must reinsert the page breaks.
> (6) I've corrected
> formating in reference pages since the OCR messes
> things up.with references
> for some reason. The only drawback I've found with
> my submssions is when I
> take out the "exact" book formating to get ride of
> the bogus hyphens, the
> page headers are placed right above the text. Hence
> the stripper should not
> delete them.
>
> I hope this makes for a very easy validation. If
> people find that these
> steps do not lead to an easy validation, please let
> me know what else can be
> done.
>
> Jim Nuttall -- Michigan
>
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