one I have noticed and as i am a slow braille reader I don't usually fix
them unless they are obvious is splits in words.
like
child ren, pas sionate, de fin ite.
smile, I know it is a particular scanning engine that does it, but that same
endine seems to handle fractions and numbers much better than the other one
so I keep using it.
I usually load a book I am prevalidating on my Braillenote and then use the
voice to read it but have my fingures on the braille display so if I catch
anything I can quickly explore it and figure out what is going on and how to
fix it.
smile. That is what I have noticed so far this year anyway.
I will say, that Scan soft, beyond its qwerk of putting spaces in words, is
much better at the OCR than is Fine Reader.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
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From: "Monica Willyard" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Making Scans Better For Braille Users
Hi. I've been doing a lot of thinking about how speech and Braille
make a book seem readable to people. As a speech user, I think I
probably miss several things in my scans that drive Braille users up
a wall. So I could use some feedback. Do any of you take turns
using speech and Braille on the same book? If so, what do you see
with your Braille display that speech glosses over. I know that line
breaks are an issue, though I don't have a good way to fix the issue
at this point. I discovered while validating the book about the
Kennedy family that sometimes there is a space between a word and its
punctuation. Speech doesn't show me that unless I'm moving letter by
letter through a sentence. I am guessing that Braille users also see
extra spacing between words or sentences. How is a tab character
handled in Braille? Are there ways to compensate for these things so
I won't have to manually read letter by letter through a whole
book? That idea seems pretty unpleasant since I usually use Jaws
with its say all feature and stop to fix errors I hear. I would
appreciate hearing from anyone with insights or ideas to share.
Monica Willyard
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