[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scan that is missing paragraph marks
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:00:17 -0700 (PDT)
I've validated several books like that recently. I
think what happens is that the submitters globally
replace the end-of-line markers that are paragraph
symbols without realizing that they're deleting the
ones that belong there.
I've chosen to validate rather than reject because I
felt the books were worth being in the
collection--they weren't just light reading--and I
doubted whether anyone would rescan. I did find, after
a little experience, that it was easy to make the
paragraphs while reading the books because there was
not space between the period ending one sentence and
the first word of the next sentence. it wasn't
necessary to check with the book itself any more.
But that's just me and the particular books I was
validating. As Jake says, you're within your rights to
reject it--and maybe the submitter has the original
copy with the paragraph breaks and can more carefully
delete the end-of-line paragraph marks.
G.Cindy
--- Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Judy,
>
> We do expect that paragraphs will be delineated in
> books. We really couldn't
> claim high quality if the book was a single
> paragraph. It sometimes happens
> that OCR will miss a paragraph break here and there,
> which is fine; however,
> asking a validator to separate every paragraph is a
> *lot* more time
> consuming than just rescanning the book, so you have
> excellent grounds for
> rejection.
>
> Jake
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:40 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Scan that is missing
> paragraph marks
>
>
> >I just downloaded a book to validate that is
> missing 99% of the paragraph
> >marks. Each page starts with a paragraph mark and
> ends with a page break.
> >
> > This book should have tons of paragraphs, from
> looking through it.
> > They've all been run into one big paragraph per
> page.
> >
> > As a sighted reader, I couldn't read this book,
> but I don't know if it
> > makes any difference for a blind reader.
> >
> > I'd prefer to just reject this book, but would
> like some input from the
> > group first. smile.
> >
> > Judy s.
> > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email
> to
> > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > put 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database:
> 269.21.7/1332 - Release
> > Date: 3/17/2008 10:48 AM
> >
> >
>
> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> put 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.
>
>
***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS
AVAILABLE AT
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm
A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html
____________________________________________________________________________________
Looking for last minute shopping deals?
Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
put 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.
Other related posts:
