[bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions on Editing Scans
- From: "Lorana Chanicut" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:14:59 -0600
Hi Kellie,
Thanks for the answers. I'll go back to my book now, and do just a bit of
rearranging. It'll make the reading much easier. The scan itself was very
good, but the fact that the sidebars were in weird places was frustrating.
And I'm glad about the RTF. It's smaller, and so much more available for the
average validator.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kellie Hartmann
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:36 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions on Editing Scans
Hi Lora,
Don't feel bad about asking questions--it's the best way to learn this and a
lot faster than trial and error. <grin>
If you want to, you can label picture captions. It's also okay to move
sidebars and boxes around--the scanner often doesn't put them where they belong
anyway. I would try to keep them on the same page as they appear in the print
book, but if you want to move them to the top or bottom of the page, or put
them between paragraphs where there is a change it topics that's okay. As far
as submitting in rtf, it's actually the preferred format. I know the Bookshare
guidelines state that submitting in ark or kes is better, and the thinking
behind that was that OCR may improve over time and if people submitted the
original scans with the images kept the files could be rerecognized in the
future with improved results. However, the files with images are enormous and
difficult to deal with for some users, and without the images there really
isn't much advantage to submitting in the proprietary formats. Rtf is
accessible to the vast majority of validators, keeps formatting, and has
manageable file size, so you can go ahead and submit away in rtf.
Hth,
Kellie
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