I think I am just as much of a perfectionist as anyone here, but as I said,
I don't see the point in going through a long list of correctly-spelled
names in order to find a few that aren't if I'm reading through the book
anyhow. It is the lower-case words that interest me. In many cases I have
found that they are just words that K1000 doesn't know, and I have to decide
whether to just ignore them or add them to the spell checker list. That
still leaves a fair proportion that just didn't come out right for whatever
reason, and I do go through those of course.
Garbled headers can also bring down the rank spelling rate, sometimes quite
a bit. That happened in the first book I scanned. Once those are removed,
then you have a more accurate idea of the actual quality of the book. She
did say that it could use some work on headers, which may imply a better
quality than the 98.8 would appear to indicate. Still, even if there were a
lot of them, fixing all of them would still leave quite a few misspelled
words, unless this 98.8 includes capitalized words. If it does, then the
book quality could be very good.
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I usually ignore capitalized words as a default. This way it gives me a rough idea of the book's quality. However, I usually unignore everything and go through the entire list before submitting. I guess I am a perfectionist.
If I get 95 percent even ignoring caps it's likely that this book should be rescanned. Of course you still have to look at what kinds of errors. The single quotes instead of apostrophe brings down the rank spell rate.
Grace
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Hi Elizabeth,
Optimizing can certainly give results under 99%. I must ask though, what you mean by 99%. Are you refering to confidence levels or to rank spelling?
If confidence levels, I usually get 98.5 and up.
If you're talking about rank spelling, I generally get 97-99 range. Of course that's without ignoring capitalized words, something which I would never do since then you're ignoring a huge chunk of the book. The first word of every sentence, and every proper noun. But if you do ignore these words then it's safe to say your rank spelling had better be over 99 in a typical book that's in excellent shape.
Jake
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I would say surprised rather than concerned. With optimize scan and version 10 of k1000 folks are getting 95.5 and better. Any ideas?
E. At 07:21 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
I have the latest version of K1000. If I have to guess, I'd say any small difference in quality is due to the very old but hardly used Epson 1280 I'm currently using. It still does excellent scans -- I pre-validated the last few books I scanned there, and they were nearly perfect, disregarding some hyphen issues and headers. Given that, I'm not concerned if I come out with a 98.8 instead of a 99.1.
At 02:14 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:Nearly 99 percent is below what is now possible with use of optimize scanning. Can you tell from rank spelling please what kinds of things are drawing that number down below 99.5 percent? What version of k1000 are you using?
E. At 01:55 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, Book 8) Jim Butcher RTF
The latest in the Harry Dresden series of urban fantasies about a wizard private investigator in Chicago with a nose for trouble.
This is an excellent scan, ranked at nearly 99%. It could use some work on headers and possibly a spellcheck or quick skim.
Shayla
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