[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Stripper (agai)

  • From: "Julie Morales" <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:32:55 -0700

Yeah, but then, we'll be complaining about inconsistencies in validating! 
*smile* Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Stripper (agai)


Hey Julie,
    Isn't that what we are already complaining about? Inconsistancies in how
the header stripper seems to work? *grin*

Jake
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Morales" <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 5:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Stripper (agai)


> Hi, Cindy. Having the validator strip headers would be good in theory, but
> since only the bare minimum is required for validating...yes, many of us
try
> to do much more, but since only the bare minimum is required, we'd have
some
> validators who wouldn't do it. Then, we'd have people complaining about
> inconsistencies. *smile* Take care.
> Julie Morales
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:39 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Stripper (agai)
>
>
> I  loved both your and Kaitlin's posts--chewable toyrs
> and flowers.
>
> But on a more serious note, perhaps lots of members
> could go to Peter's members meeting at the NFC meeting
> this summer and find out what's going on. Peter,will
> there be an engineer representative there? Can the
> members find out and pass on the info?  Why is the
> stripper necessary? Validators can easily strip the
> headers as they read -- many can be stripped by a
> global replace with nothing? IF the stripper is
> sripping page numbers and chapter titles even when the
> headers have been stripped it's doing a disservice
> rather than performing a service.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we might want to consider that those left in
> > place partial headers
> > are part of what non-bookshare members mean when
> > they talk about having a
> > lot of extra stuff in a book or poor scans.  To
> > many, extra junk which they
> > do not want to read is perceived as a poor scan even
> > if we as volunteers do
> > not perceive it that way.  I know I am being
> > frivolous here but really this
> > discussion of a faulty stripper has been going on
> > for about three years
> > now.  Would the bookshare officials and the leading
> > manufacturers of ocr
> > packages such as open book and k1000 please unit to
> > solve this problem?  It
> > would make us more attractive to new users I think.
> > So now to be less
> > compalining I am going back to enjoying all those
> > books from bookshare.
> >
> > Back to reading outside in my garden.
> >
> > E.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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