There you are again...my lifesaver from the Dolly biography. <smile> So I was right. There was something there. If you could get the book and be willing to do that, that would be great. Thanks so much for offering. I've read almost 200 pages of it so far and that so far seems to be the only thing that didn't scan. Thanks again.
Mihaly, Katie wrote:
Hi Julie, I just looked at the book with Amazon's "Look inside this book." I think it is like you said, some of the chapters have something under the chapter title and some don't. It looks like for the most part it is the city & date when the chapter took place, i.e. "Springfield May 1860." It's also in italics which I understand doesn't always scan well. I can get a copy of the book & send you the text & where it is supposed to be, if you want. Katie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julie & Miss Mercy Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:38 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about chapter titlesI know. That's why I didn't adjust the settings. I was getting a good scan on everything else and I knew if I did that, it would probably messup the text, so I didn't. EVAN REESE wrote:Part of the problem with recognizing chapter titles in some books is that, if you adjust your settings to get the best quality on the text,you can lose OCR quality on anything that may be substantially different in font type, contrast, or whatever.Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie & Miss Mercy" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:03 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about chapter titlesHi, Kathy. Yeah, that would be nice, but I do understand that there are so many variants of fonts that that would be pretty difficult I guess, but it would still be nice. What I'm working on now is a historical fiction book and a lot of the fiction titles I've done don't have tables of contents, although some have. I'm not that luckywith this one though. <smile> Kathy Hester wrote:Thankfully, the books I've scanned that had chapter titles have tables of contents. They're usually written in a font that will scan, so I just went by the numbers and copied and pasted the title. However, I do realize that they're not all like that. I've just been lucky in my choices, but it does look like the OCR programs need to work on some of the font sizes and styles that are sometimes used for titles. Maybe we'd all better write to Kurzweil,Freedom Scientific, or the companies that design the particular OCR programs we use and suggest it. After all, that could be of tremendous help. Even students--maybe especially students--need to be able to read titles, in order to read assignments.I do realize this isn't helping you, but I just thought it might be a thought worth passing along.Kathy----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie & Miss Mercy" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>"The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn His face toward you and give you peace." Numbers 6:24-26To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:52 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about chapter titles I have a question regarding chapter titles. I just finished a bookinwhich some of the chapters had titles that didn't scan because offont.Well, wouldn't you know it, I'm working on another one of the same type,where the numbers scanned but junk scanned where there might betitles.is this really important? My perfectionistic side screams that Ineedsomeone else to help with this book as well, but as long as I havethenumbers, are the chapter titles really that important? I want mybooksto reflect the printed copy as much as I can, but two books in a row with the same problem...?<smile> Thanks for any feedback. 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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