[bksvol-discuss] Re: This is terrible!

  • From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:13:23 -0400

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Yesterday I followed the instructions below to change my settings. Just now, before I began my scanning session for today, I went through it again just to be sure that the new settings had been retained. This time as I was tabbing to the okay button I noticed a setting that I had not noticed before. It was "retain line breaks." It was not checked. I wonder if checking this would help with my problem? I did not check it because I had visions of another problem I once had returning. That problem was that there was a paragraph break after each and every line. I had a devil of a time fixing that one. I finally found out that it could be solved by changing my decolumnize setting. I don't want to bring that problem back. Do you or does anyone else know if checking the retain line breaks setting will help me with the current problem or will it just cause more problems?

[bksvol-discuss] Re: This is terrible!

Roger, I'm so sorry that this has happened.

When I upgraded to Openbook 9 with Windows 7, I had a similar problem.

Freedom Scientific advised me to do the following:

While in the OpenBook(tm) scanning and reading software

1.  Pull up the settings menu "alt+g"

2.  Arrow down to work flow settings and hit enter

3.  Tab over to work flow modify... button and hit enter

4.  Perform the control+tab command to get to the process page

5. You should be positioned on: recognition, use default recognition. If this item

is checked here, press the spacebar to uncheck this item

6.  Tab to: recognition stradegy

7.  Use your arrow keys to select: most accurate and hit enter

8.  Tab to okay and hit enter

Changing to "most accurate" has helped quite a bit. I had scanned one book which still had formatting problems, but several I have scanned did have the

paragraphs formatted properly.

Lori C.

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Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 5:34 PM

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] This is terrible!

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This is the kind of problem that makes me feel a bit sick and tempts me

to stop volunteering. I am very careful with my submissions. I scan them

two pages at a time and if the margins are too tight I will scan them

one page at a time. Before I go on to the next two pages I read over the

pages I have just scanned correcting any scannos or other problems I

come across and then I run a spell check on the same two pages. I do

leave a lot to the proofreader because I do not have the proper software

to do some of the proofreading chores, but I am fairly confident that

when the proofreader gets my submission it will be a pretty easy

proofing job. This means that I put a lot of work into my submissions

and I am rather slow to get them to the checkout list. Well, I just got

a notification that one of my submissions with well over 300 carefully

scanned pages cannot be added to the collection because so many

paragraph breaks are missing, especially in dialog and that it must be

rescanned. That was one thing that I did not notice and did not check

before submitting. I just looked at my copies of other scans and I have

a 396 page submission currently being proofread and another 400 page

book that I am close to finishing that may have the same problem. I am

not certain at all that I have the will to start all over on these

books. I am using Open Book 9 on a Windows 7 computer and I do not have

Word except for Word starter. Does anyone know if there is a good way to

fix this problem short of starting all over and does anyone know how to

prevent it in the future. Honestly, putting all that work in only to be

told that it has to be done all over again kind of makes a person want

to just give up.

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