Misha, thanks for posting that. That is very good to kn ow and I'll use
that search for superscript numbers the next time I have cause (and I have
at least one book in my pile I'll need do it smile
Cindy
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 9:34 AM, misha <mishatronics@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Judy,
I haven't done anything that long, but for the non-fiction books that I
did, my process was not much different than yours. As the years have gone
by, the OCR programs have become much better at things like recognizing
tiny footnote numbers. So my best advice for scanning such books is get the
best scanner with the newest software you can afford.
One extra bit for proofing, MS Word allows searching on format as well as
content. So for books with many footnote numbers, I have on occasion put
superscript in the search criteria, then start with 1, when I find that and
make sure it is formatted right, change the 1 to 2 in the search, and so
on. If an expected number doesn't show up, then I go back to the book to
find what page the missing number is on and fix that.
Tedious, tedious, tedious.
Misha
On 2/19/2016 12:42 PM, Judy s. wrote:
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?
--
Judy s.
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