Replacing the hyphen ^p with nothing should join up the hyphenated word. But OpenBook does have an end of line hyphen feature that I believe should already be turned on. But if it isn't, turn it on and it may reduce--if not eliminate--end of line hyphens.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Peters" <rpet@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:16 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Rejecting a great scan for too many page breaks
Thank you for this. I'll try it.I suppose that for hyphenated words, one would replace the hyphen ^p with nothing?RobertAttention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or nonpublic material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies."Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 6/10/2009 1:08 PM >>>Robert and Evan, I suspected that the line ending character was the paragraph mark (caret+p typed as pshift+6+p).I scan with openbook 7.02 and sometimes have this character entered througha book and sometimes it does not show at all. I find that the problemoccurs less often with recotgnize columns turned on. I turn exact view (notexact wording) off and still have the problem. I have used different recognition engines with no effect.I now follow Mayrie's recommendation when I have converted the file to .rtfand am editing in Word.In the find box type caret+p followed by the lower case letter a and in thereplace box space a. Be sure to tab to the more button and space then tab to match case and check that. I shift tab back to replace all and enter.I follow this sequence with every lower case letter in the alphabet. Aftera few books, the sequences take about five minutes.Also, Robert, in Openbook be sure to turn off despeckle, white on black andlanguage analyst. These features are on by default; turning them off will greatly improve your scans. Cat Lover Lori----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:07 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Rejecting a great scan for too many page breaksI used to use WordPerfect. I have to say here that I really liked that program. Anyway, the "hrt" you mention here is the hard return character, the ^p in MS Word, which is the paragraph symbol. I do not think you want to do a global search and replace to get rid of those, as your book wouldthen become one very long paragraph. Somehow, you need to find out why yourOCR software is putting those hard returns at the end of each line and get it to just put them at the ends of paragraphs in the book. Is there a setting in OpenBook that has something to do with respectingline endings in the book? If so, then you need to turn it off. If there is no such setting, then I'm not sure what you can do. I used to use OpenBook7 about two years ago and I didn't have this issue come up. Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Peters" <rpet@xxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:13 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Rejecting a great scan for too many page breaksJamie, These are instances in books I have scanned and had rejected; accordingto Word Perfect 12.0, they are linebreaks [HRt] is the character it givesme, and there is one at the end of each line. I do not have a Braille display, and the rejection notes I have gotten on the four all said linebreaks. What is the method in Microsoft Word to get JAWS to tell me a linebreak character is there so I could try a global replace?I'm sorry to have so many questions; all my scanning in the past has justbeen for me, and using a BookPort for the last several years to read them. BookPort doesn't care about the linebreaks, but the Victor Streams (which I just got) appears to, as it makes the reading jerky. Robert Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or nonpublic material. Any review,retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action inreliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies.Jamie Yates <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx> 6/9/2009 7:24 PM >>>Also, Robert, you might not be dealing with the ^l line break. You might be dealing with paragraph breaks at the end of each line, so that the text looks like it does in the printed book. When I have seen that, what I have tried to do is determine if there are 2or more paragraph breaks ^p between the paragraphs. If so, I have changedall instances of ^p^p^p to a qqq, or if there aren't usually 3 together thenjust the ^p^p to a qqq. Then I change single ^p to a space. Then I changeall the qqq back to ^p^p^p and I make sure to change all of the ^m to a ^p^m^p because changing those gives you the blank lines before and after hard page breaks.This will ONLY work if paragraphs are separated by at least two paragraph breaks. If they aren't, you're better off rejecting the book than you aretrying to change only the correct ^p to a space. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: False Prophet by Faye Kellerman www.michrxtech.com/books.html To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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