The worst time for me was when the book text would scan great, but two and
three, whether page numbers or footnotes, would be interchanged and you
couldn't depend on which was correct. The publisher saved me ungodly amounts
of work by submitting the book. I'm pretty sure I'd have had to quit on the
book.
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 7:31 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Looking for best way to make sure all footnote
numbers are in text
Hi Judy,
I don’t have a magic answer for you either. I also do what Deborah does, when
reading through a book, I try to keep track of which note number I most
recently encountered so that when I hit the next one, I’ll notice if any are
missing. Although this method has been known to fail on occasion, as I get
interested in the content of the book and forget to keep track. It usually
works though.
If there’s not much distance between adjacent note numbers and one is
missing, I generally use my Optacon to check the text and find the missing
number or numbers. If there’s more than a page or two, I sometimes check what
the missing note number is, and then from the context, I can tell where to look
for the missing number. Also, doing a rescan of the page or pages where the
missing number or numbers are likely to be can often get them.
That’s about all the tricks I have.
It can be a pain though, no getting around that; and it depends on the book
as to how well the scanner can pick them up, i.e. print quality, paper quality,
contrast, and all that stuff you know about.
Evan
From: Judy s.
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:42 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Looking for best way to make sure all footnote
numbers are in text
I just finished going through 900 pages of a book that is heavily footnoted,
as in it has almost 2000 footnotes. The footnotes are all at the end of the
book in a notes section, so that part was easy-ish to proofreader. However,
making sure that the footnote numbers were actually maintained in the text
itself by the scanning and OCR was a nightmare.
I'm sighted, so I was able to use scanned images from the book to help me
find where missing footnote numbers went. Even so, it took months, working on
it a little bit at a time, to make sure that the text had every single footnote
number and that they were all formatted properly to Bookshare's standards. The
scanner did a terrific job on this huge very complex book, except for the
footnote numbers which were a bear for them to scan, so I didn't want to reject
it.
If anyone has a better or different way to do this, I'd really appreciate if
you could share it. It would be useful to me to know how everyone else, sighted
or blind, tackles this kind of nightmare.
Even in a fairly simple book that has footnotes, what techniques seem to work
to make sure that all of the footnote numbers are in the text?
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Judy s.
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