Yes, this almost always works, but with the first book I scanned with K1000,
the headers were in some weird font, and the garbles were not consistent.
There were literally dozens of variations of the author's name and the title
of the book. Since ranked spelling brings up individual misspelled words,
the number of misspelled words in the heading containing the author's name
was doubled, resulting in a whole lot of results that brought down the
rating substantially. Search and replace was not a whole lot of help in
this book; the headers almost all had to be removed by hand.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:13 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Just submitted
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>
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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%. It could use some
>>>>>>work on headers and possibly a spellcheck or
quick skim.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Shayla
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