[bksvol-discuss] Re: I'm trying to understand Smart Quotes

  • From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:52:03 -0700

Hi Bob,
Actually, I'm not sure if they are smart quotes, but I've seen some books scanned with open book where all of the quotes had to be replaced because they didn't look right. Unfortunately, I don't know what was wrong with them in terms of naming that thing. I just know that they looked wrong, so I replaced them with quotes that were the right thing. 

Mayrie

At 08:07 AM 5/30/2008, you wrote:
I'm not really sure about this, but if a book is scanned in k1000 or openbook it won't have smart quotes. I think it's software like omnipage that create .rtf files directly that do the dirty deed to these books. 

I'm not a scannor but this is my limitted experience.

So, if you use k1000 or openbook, then worry not.

Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Kristic" <maria6289@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:49 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: I'm trying to understand Smart Quotes



Hi Nancy,

Just because an RTF file with straight quotes is opened in Word does not
mean that these straight quotes will be automatically converted to smart
quotes. Converting from KES to RTF won't change them either. As Cindy said,
whether the quotes are smart or straight in your scanned file depends on how
the OCR engine recognizes them. The Replace box I talked about earlier means
that, if checked, Word would replace a quote that you literally typed on the
keyboard with a smart quote; it wouldn't just do it automatically during the
file open/display process. Uncheck the box if you want to.

In general, though, don't worry about it so much. Just scan your entire
book, then follow your normal editing procedure, and perform the
Find/Replaces to check for smart quotes along with whatever else you do.
Those two Find/Replaces literally take me about a minute, if not less.

HTH,
Maria
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of NANCY M HILL
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:20 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] I'm trying to understand Smart Quotes

If a submitter scans and proofs in KES, then converts the book to RTF
immediately prior to uploading, will that book be infected with Smart Quotes

since it has not come in contact with MSWord?

Thanks,
Nancy

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