Well, my thinking on this is that even if a book has a lot of names, the
vast majority of words in the book are not going to be these names. So the
vast majority of errors that are going to occur will involve these
lower-case words, not the names.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 6:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Spelling names
I don't have K1000 but what I do in books that have a lot of weird names is "add" it to my spelling dictionary so it will catch if the name is mis-spelled but otherwise not. Unfortunately, words don't seem to stay added all the way to the final spell-check. I find it amazing, too, that practically never have I found mis-spelled unusual names in books I've validated. Either the scanning machine does an excellent job or the scanning person has checked and corrected the names before submitting the book. There may be lots of other scannos or missing letters or words at the bindings, but practiclaly never mis-spelled names.
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have ignored capitalized words in the first three books I scanned with no problems. Since I read through everything anyway, it is a waste of time to go through what amounted to - in the last book I scanned - a lot more than a hundred correctly-spelled capitalized names to find an extremely small number of improperly-spelled ones. Frankly, I can't recall any misspelled words at the beginnings of sentences, except a few that began with someone's name, which I can fix as I read. There may have been a 'the' or something minor here or there, but those are also trivial to fix as I read as well. Once I ignore those capitalized words, however, I have gotten something well above 99 percent so far.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Just submitted
> Hi Elizabeth,
>
> Optimizing can certainly give results under 99%. I
must ask though, what
> you mean by 99%. Are you refering to confidence
levels or to rank
> spelling?
>
> If confidence levels, I usually get 98.5 and up.
>
> If you're talking about rank spelling, I generally
get 97-99 range. Of
> course that's without ignoring capitalized words,
something which I would
> never do since then you're ignoring a huge chunk
of the book. The first
> word of every sentence, and every proper noun. But
if you do ignore these
> words then it's safe to say your rank spelling had
better be over 99 in a
> typical book that's in excellent shape.
>
> Jake
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 6:50 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Just submitted
>
>
>>I would say surprised rather than concerned. With
optimize scan and
>>version 10 of k1000 folks are getting 95.5 and
better. Any ideas?
>>
>> E.
>> At 07:21 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>>I have the latest version of K1000. If I have to
guess, I'd say any small
>>>difference in quality is due to the very old but
hardly used Epson 1280
>>>I'm currently using. It still does excellent
scans -- I pre-validated the
>>>last few books I scanned there, and they were
nearly perfect,
>>>disregarding some hyphen issues and headers.
Given that, I'm not
>>>concerned if I come out with a 98.8 instead of a
99.1.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>At 02:14 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>>>>Nearly 99 percent is below what is now possible
with use of optimize
>>>>scanning. Can you tell from rank spelling
please what kinds of things
>>>>are drawing that number down below 99.5 percent?
What version of k1000
>>>>are you using?
>>>>
>>>>E.
>>>>At 01:55 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, Book 8)
>>>>>Jim Butcher
>>>>>RTF
>>>>>
>>>>>The latest in the Harry Dresden series of urban
fantasies about a
>>>>>wizard private investigator in Chicago with a
nose for trouble.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is an excellent scan, ranked at nearly
99%. It could use some
>>>>>work on headers and possibly a spellcheck or
quick skim.
>>>>>
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