Yeah I know, that’s a bummer. That’s why I almost always use the FineReader
engine. If it wasn’t for FineReader’s weird case problems, I’d never use the
ScanSoft engine at all.
The only other solution, as has been said, is to use the FineReader engine and
then bring the book into MS Word and fix up the case issues.
Evan
From: Gary Petraccaro
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 2:11 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Day After Judgment
It's just that I have no way of ensuring that what's all in caps gets
translated properly. The Fine Reader Engine takes mixed size uppercase and
makes it cap first letter and the rest lowercase. The other engine does the
caps fine as far as I can tell, but has more other errors. I'm going to have
to do the book twice. I have The Day After Judgment and Black Easter. This
just isn't going to be anything but a slog.
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From: William Korn (Redacted sender "willythekorn" for DMARC)
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 4:47 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Day After Judgment
That's a great book. I was going to scan the larger book - "The Devil's Day"
- of which "The Day After Judgement" is a part, except it's already in the
library.
In regard to your question, I have had similar problems with books that
choose to have a lot of text in italics. The problem of rendering text into
all caps is comparatively easy if you're working in Microsoft Word - it's
"Format"-"Change Case"-"Upper Case". My personal opinion is to try and
preserve all caps (or italics) in a text, even if it takes a little more work
to make it happen, as some screen/text readers will read all caps in a
different tone than regular text (the Victor Reader Stream, for example).
Bill Korn
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From: Gary Petraccaro <garypet130@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2016 1:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Day After Judgment
I just started work on James Blish's The Day After Judgment. The problem
is the typographical games the author has decided to play. Some text is all in
uppercase. The ocr engine has decided to make it mixed because the larger
capital letters apparently give it fits. I can switch engines and see what I
get, but should I. To me this may be valuable for a reader, but not a
listener, but that reader might not get much value from reading this in
anything but print. I'm left in a quandry.
I would appreciate comments.
Thanks.
