[bksvol-discuss] Re: This is terrible!

  • From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garypet130@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:21:27 -0400

If you look for " " (quote marks, space, quote marks), do your paragraphs join 
together like that?  You can determin those by context.  There will also be 
times when they're just words in quotations, so it's a context check.  I don't 
know any other way to check.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roger Loran Bailey 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 10:11 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: This is terrible!


  #
  I have saved this to my documents and will probably try your advice tomorrow 
just before my next scanning session. However, do you know any way to fix what 
has already been done?

  On 10/25/2013 9:28 PM, Lori Castner wrote:

    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.



    -----Original Message-----
    From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
    Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 5:34 PM
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] This is terrible!



    #

    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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