[bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
- From: "Donna Goodin" <goodindo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:30:53 -0400
Didn't someone on this list put up a funny scanner errors link on their
webpage? Maybe this could be a group effort, you know, a new page for the
bookshare website.
Cheers,
Donna
----- Original Message -----
From: "CJ Vining" <Vining@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:56 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
> LOL! I think, with this, and the message about the "snacks" mistake from a
> few weeks ago, I should start a file about funny scanner mistakes. It's
> cheap entertainment, anyway. won't take the place of Frasier, but...
>
> Joanie
>
> Donna said:
> >Openbook isn't the only software with
> > this problem. I submitted the book Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott
> > Daavidson last fall, which I'd scanned with Kurzweil. When I finally
got
> > around to reading the book myself this spring, I found the following,
> well,
> > interesting error. There is a character in the book named Pomeroy, who
is
> > called Pom for short. Guess you can see where this goes. Pomeroy came
> out
> > just fine, but throughout the text the guy is called Porn, whenever his
> > nickname is used. *grin*
> > Take care,
> > Donna
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:01 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Openbook users
> >
> >
> > > Hi to all the Openbook users,
> > >
> > > I would like to request that you go into your spelling corrections
> > > dictionary, and delete com becomes corn. I'm not sure at all who the
> one
> > > was that originally decided to put it in the corrections dictionary,
but
> I
> > > believe it was ill advised. I am very tired of reading about:
> accornpany,
> > > becornes, cornpanies, cornmanders, etc. I can't conceive of why they
> did
> > > this, especially when you consider all the words with com in them, as
> > > opposed to corn.
> > > Another word in the dictionary that could use attention is tom becomes
> > > torn. I guess the people at Freedom Scientific have a very low
opinion
> of
> > > the success rate in recognizing o m combos, or should I say cornbos.
If
> > > the Openbook users don't want to do away altogether with the tom
becomes
> > > torn, they can at least make it a case sensitive search. This would
> then
> > > preclude our creating a whole new group of people with very sheik
names
> > > like Torn Bradley, Torn Miller, Torn Smith, etc.
> > > Being an Openbook user myself, I have already ditched the corn one,
and
> at
> > > least for a while I'll try the torn as a case sensitive conversion.
> > > Thank you for reading, or should I say listening to / feeling, my
> ranting.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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