[bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with Open Book
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 18:00:09 -0700 (PDT)
If I understand you, your scans come out as ark files. Can you convert them to
Word/ Then you can save them rtf files.
I can tell you how to get rid of the paragraph symbols at the end of the lines
in Word, in one fell swoop, if you are careful. It it's what I did for a couple
of your books when Carrie put them on the download list for me to fix
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Tue, 4/6/10, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Problem with Open Book
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 5:05 PM
> Some of you will remember that quite
> some time ago I had a problem with my Open Book 6 such that
> it was inserting paragraph breaks after every single line in
> my scans. After getting various suggestions on how to stop
> it and after none of them worked I finally gave up and just
> submitted them that way while placing a note in the comments
> section asking the proofreader to remove them. Since last
> night and into today I have been in telephone and email
> contact with both Bookshare and Freedom Scientific technical
> support. What it comes down to is that my solution is no
> longer exceptable. A lot of proofreaders have the same
> problem that I have in not having the software or expertise
> that allows those breaks to be easily removed and others
> either do not understand the problem or do not read the
> comments and submit what they think is a perfectly good
> proofed book and it has to be sent back. Even when a proofer
> uses the 27 step process described in the manual, that is
> not an ideal solution either. I have been told that for one
> thing it is an advanced technique that is beyond some
> proofers and for another thing it really only removes maybe
> 80 to 90 per cent of the unwanted breaks. What it comes down
> to is that I am going to have to solve the problem by either
> upgrading my software -- an expensive prospect that I would
> like to avoid -- or find a solution within my current
> software or else quit scanning and go back to proofreading.
> Even if it is a bit more work I prefer scanning because that
> way I am more likely to get to work on something I am
> actually interested in. When I skim the checkout list it is
> clear that most of you do not entirely share my tastes.
> Right now I would like to ask a couple of questions. First,
> since people come and go here I want to ask if there is
> anyone present now who knows how to make Open Book stop
> this. I doubt that I will get a satisfactory answer to that
> one because Freedom Scientific technical support today knew
> of no such settings either. Secondly, let me describe the
> next step that I have worked out with a certain Bookshare
> employee. The next step is that I should scan something in
> RTF rather than ARK and converting it. Now, once, a long
> time ago, I had the idea that since I had to convert it to
> RTF anyway I would just scan it that way in the first place.
> There was some kind of problem with that which I don't
> remember, but whatever it was I decided that it wouldn't
> work. Now I am trying again and I don't remember how. I went
> into my settings and changed the default format to RTF and
> then I created a new blank document, but when I looked at it
> it had an ARK extension. I went ahead and scanned a few
> pages into it and they still had the line break problem. I
> then converted it to RTF and it still had the line break
> problem. I then created a new document that turned out to
> have an ARK extension too and converted it to RTF while
> there was nothing in it. I then had a blank document with an
> RTF extension. I scanned a few pages into that and it still
> had the same problem. The guy at Bookshare said that he
> didn't really think that constituted scanning in RTF, so he
> asked me to ask the list how I could scan in RTF. Once I do
> so I am supposed to email the result to him. So, does anyone
> know how to do that? And let me add one more question. How
> much does it cost to upgrade to the latest version of Open
> Book and, if I went for Kurzweil instead, how much would
> they cost if I already have Open Book 6? I would hate to go
> that route because, even though I have added a few reasons
> for volunteering since I started, including that I just
> enjoy it, the main reason for becoming a volunteer in the
> first place was to accumulate credits and defray the cost of
> a subscription. I really don't have a lot of money to play
> with.
>
>
> _ _ _
>
> "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one
> fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss
> all the other possible gods, you will understand why I
> dismiss yours"
> Stephen Roberts
>
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