[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submission

  • From: "mickey" <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:33:27 -0400

I can't wait for your scan of that book. Sounds like fun.

Mickey

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 5:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Submission



Good ideas, Rick.

Cindy

--- Rik James <d28rik@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm just working on The Big  Bam, a new Babe Ruth
biography.  An excellen
read, by the way, baseball fan or not!, any of you
validators!

There is a series of about 10 pages of photographs.
The captions all
scanned real nicely, and I do as Katie suggests, to
delete the jibberish
characters.  Doing that really enhances the reading,
I think.

A Suggestion:
what I do is to consistently insert this in front of
each of the captions:

[PHOTO CAPTION]

I actually just copy that text to the clipboard, and
paste it in for each
caption, so it works pretty well and I think as a
reader myself, it helps to
hear the term before the caption, and you know it is
not part of the text
narrative.

Hope that is a useful idea.

Something else -- Sometimes these pages of the book
are part of the page
pagination and sometimes they are not.  If they are,
I have put in a page
number if there is not one.

In this current book I'm working on, they are not
part of the page numbering
and the next page with text is the page after the
last page before the
photos.

One thing I did one time was that I found there was
only like one more page
of a chapter remaining after a set of pages with
photographs.  I chose to go
ahead and move those captions to after that last
page of the chapter.  It
sure makes it nice to not have the chapter
interrupted by the captions.

Thanks.
Rik



-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Katie Star
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:53 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Submission

HI Alexis,



This is common for the OCR software to do with
pictures or illustrations. IT
may pick up a word or so but it is mostly odd
symbols. The best thing to do
in this case is keep the caption and delete the
gibberish.



The other option would be to have sighted assistance
and put a description
of the picture but not required.



Katie Hill

Miracles happen not in opposition to Nature, but in
opposition to

what we know of Nature.

-St. Augustine

________________________________

From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Alexis Read
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:35 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submission



Just submitted a book entitled "The Little Book of
Hugs."  There are many
pictures in the print version that didn't scan.
When the OCR was applied to
the text, the pictures converted to letters and
symbols that didn't make
sense.  I'm not sure if this will be difficult for
the volunteer who
validates it or not.  Most of the pictures have
captions that scanned
decently.



Alexis



Alexis Read
alexisread@xxxxxxxxx

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." John
Cotton



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