Congratulations, Roger. Whew! I can hear your sigh of relief. Debby At 07:09 PM 4/7/2010, Roger Loran Bailey wrote
Whoopee! This actually appears to have worked. I kept it in two page mode. In fact, I kept everything the same except that I turned on recognize columns and the test scan I just now did does appear to have those line breaks not there. Now all I have to do is to send this test scan to Rick at Bookshare and if he agrees that it is okay I am back in the scanning business. I am still going to price MS Word and Kurzweil, but it looks like the urgency is gone, so I can sit back and contemplate them at my leisure._ _ _"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 The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:26 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with Open BookRoger, I am an Openbook user, and use version 7.2.I have not scanned any books recently because I prefer to proofread. So I did some test scans this morning trying various options.When I scan either in two-page or single page mode with columns recognized on I do not get the paragraph marks at the end of lines. I am recognizing text using omnipage.If I have recognize columns turned off then I get the paragraph mark at the end of every line.With any setting I get a blank line between paragraphs, but that is not a real problem.By the way, I virtually quit scanning in two-page mode because often one page would scan as a blank page and then the two pages would scan as one page. Cleaning up the text was frustrating. Someone explained why this happens, but no matter the reason I found that I wasted a lot of time solving the problem and that using single-page scan proved more efficient for me.I don't know if any of this helps you, but thought I would share.I do save my openbook files in .rtf and then proofread with Word 2003. I am going to try Denise's method as many books that come through have paragraph marks at the end of lines.Lori C.----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 9:46 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with Open BookOkay, I believe you when you say that it is not the 27 step process. For that matter, I don't even know what the 27 step process is. Since I don't have Word there was no ppoint in my ever looking at it. What I meant when I said it won't work is that it won't work right now with the equipment I have on hand. I am also sorry that your instructions here did not make sense to me because I have never used Word and have no idea how to go about using it. I did not say that I was going out and buying Kurzweil right away either. For right now I just think I will look into it. I understand that if you have Open Book you can get a big discount on Kurzweil. Unfortunately, it is still expensive, so it is the less likely route I will go. Getting Word is more likely. However, until I do get Word and learn how to use it, I still say it won't work. In the meantime, though, I have some ideas about what I can do until I get into a position such that it will work and I will probably be back on the list with that later. First I have to confer with Rick at Bookshare again though._ _ _"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 The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Thompson" <deniset@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:45 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with Open BookRoger you're digging yourself a hole here. Will you stop telling me it's the same as the 27 step process and that bookshare says it won't work. I use OB myself and I'm telling you it does work. Get yourself an inexpensive copy of word and I'll help you with your issue. You don't need pro or any of the rest of the suite just word. It'll be a lot less expensive than Kursweil which is either $1200 or $1300. This is what you do The idea here is that when scanning into OB, don't make any line or spacing changes until you're done. OB creates paragraphs by putting two paragraph marks together which makes a blank line between paragraphs. So you do what follows in the order I've specified. The first step gets rid of the paragraph marks at the end of each line. It uses the double marks to determine where the paragraphs are and thereby eliminates those single paragraph marks. The second step gets rid of the double paragraph marks leaving just one paragraph at the end of the paragraph and gets rid of the extra blank line. If you do the second step first, word has no way of determining which are the marks within the paragraph. So it gets rid of all paragraph marks. That's why you must do the first step listed first. If you do some of the 27 step stuff before you do this it may throw it off. If you convert the M dashes before the paragraph that won't hurt anything. If you locate page breaks and eliminate blank lines at the top of the page or something like that first it can goof uphow you want your page numbers or chapter titles to be displayed. For example it may pull the chapter to the same line as the page number. So you do this first before you look for page breaks or any of that stuff. You do this first before you do any other clean up and you're home free. If you pull up a file into Word in which each line ends with a paragraph mark and each paragraph ends with two or more paragraph marks: 1. On the Edit Menu, choose Replace. 2. In the Find What box, enter: ([!^13])(^13)([!^13]) In the Replace With box, enter: \1 \3 Click the More.. button, and check Use Wildcards.Click Replace All and click OK when Word tells you it has done the replacement.This will remove any paragraph marks that are at the end of a line but within a paragraph. 3. Now, in the Find What box, enter: ^13{2,} In the Replace With box, enter: ^pClick Replace All and click OK when Word tells you it has done the replacement.This will remove multiple consecutive paragraph marks, so that each paragraph ends with just one paragraph mark, as it should. Note that the Use Wildcards setting is sticky, so if you subsequently do another Find and Replace during the same Word session, you have to remember to switch it off again, if appropriate. DeniseTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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