It's o.k. to get rid of headers. I do a global replace with nothing. If one doesn't go back to the beginning, the title and such from the first pages don't get removed, but it's always a good idea to double-check. Often the garbled ones are repeated in their garbled form--or a different garble shows up that has duplicates. It saves work. smile Cindy --- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Silvara" <silvara@xxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:57 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Just submitted > > > >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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:08 PM > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Just submitted > > > > > >> 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 > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 6:50 PM > >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Just submitted > >> > >> > >>>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%. 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