[bksvol-discuss] Re: Please don't kill me
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:18:30 -0800 (PST)
I read the reviews at Amazon.com and it sounds like a
fun book, but it's so new--just published in February,
that none of my libraries has it yet. However, when
you're finished scanning, submit it with a hold for me
and I'll validate it when I get the book. No hurry, as
I have the Princess books and others to do first.
G.Cindy
--- Eric Troup <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The book is called "The Automatic Detective," by A.
> Lee Martinez. It's
> about a robot who becomes a detective in order to
> find his kidnapped
> neighbors, the closest thing he has to family. It's
> great so far, very
> "pulpy."
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:27 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Please don't kill me
>
>
> > What is the book? If it interests me, I'll take it
> at
> > some point, but not for a while because I have too
> > many lined up to do at the moment, i.e., my five
> > downloaded and some promised.
> >
> > If I decide to do it you can put hold for me and
> put
> > in the comments that it needs a sighted validator.
> >
> > G.Cindy
> >
> > --- Eric Troup <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Well, I just scanned a book using the demo of
> >> OpenBook 8. Apparently, it defaults to using an
> OCR
> >> recognition language called "Omnipage with
> Two-way
> >> Voting." I scanned an entire book, thinking from
> >> the text that was being read back to me that it
> was
> >> fine. Once I started deleting headers and such,
> I
> >> came to a realization: Omnipage with two-way
> voting
> >> (whatever the hell that means) recognizes
> characters
> >> quite well ... but paragraph formatting is almost
> >> nonexistent! I mean, hardly any paragraph breaks
> at
> >> all!
> >>
> >> Since the text is so clean, I reeeeeeeally don't
> >> want to have to rescan it with Finereader which
> I'm
> >> sure would keep the paragraph breaks. I already
> >> scanned another book using Finereader with
> Openbook
> >> 8, but I guess somewhere my settings got switched
> >> back to default.
> >>
> >> If I submit this book, will it be rejected due to
> >> lack of paragraph breaks? <Sigh> I am a bit at
> a
> >> loss.
> >>
> >
> >
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> >
> > A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS
> AVAILABLE AT
> >
>
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
> >
> > Jake's site for useful links:
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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