[bksvol-discuss] Re: Quandries of an inexperienced proofreader
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 14:39:29 -0500
Hi John!
Evan's suggestions were quite helpful.
His comment about italicized words reminded me of two things, one having to
do with italics, and the other not.
Sometimes, instead of the italicized pronoun "I", the OCR will recognize it
as a / (that's a slash). It's obvious that the slash should be "I".
The thing I thought of that doesn't have to do with italics is that very
occasionally, probably due to the font used in the hard copy, the OCR will
take out the space between the pronoun "I" and the next word, so you could
have "Iwould" ""Icould", Iam" "Ihave" and "Idid", for example. They are
obvious scannos, too. Scannos that are easily deciphered such as my
examples in this post, I call "light scanos". The ones that I cannot
figure out, such as your question about what was really supposed to be
"hmmmm" I call heavy scanos. Just my terms, (smile).
Debby
At 01:37 PM 5/26/2013, Evan Reese wrote
Hi John,
The braille translator will put a dot 4 in front of the e in café to
indicate that it's an e acute. You should leave those as they are in the book.
As for the compound words, there's quite a bit of variability in how those
are written. My K1000 Ranked Spelling flags those quite a lot, at least
until I add them to its vocabulary. Unfortunately, they should be left as
written, even if they are not pronounced properly by some screen readers.
My experience is that OCR usually doesn't remove spaces between words
where they exist. The only exception to this is sometimes in italicized
text, where letters slant to the right, and the space between words can be
a bit smaller than usual. That will sometimes fool the OCR and cause the
removal of a space between words, but with normal text, I find this
doesn't happen. Don't know what OCR you're using there, but if it is set
to remove end of line hyphens, it should work pretty well at doing that.
However, with the FineReader OCR engine in my K1000, which is what I use
most of the time, if the first word of a compound word is at the end of a
line, then my OCR will generally leave the hyphen in. Most of those won't
be at the end of a line though, so if you see very many of these without
hyphens, chances are that that is how they were printed. Those should be
left as written as well.
HTH
Evan
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Quandries of an inexperienced proofreader
the word café contains the é.
How is this handled in Braille?
Are we supposed to convert é to plain e?
I find words like love seat written as loveseat (alternate spelling).
I can't tell if the space is left out by the author/editor or the
scanner/ocr.
When those two words lack the space, the pronunciation is badly affected.
I find many words that I think should be hyphanated but aren't.
Again I can't tell if the scanner/ocr has done this, and these words also
aren't pronounced very well.
What do you experienced people think?
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