Hi Shelley, In talking with the various O C R engine techs supports, They all invaribably suggest that books be scanned in black and white, as gray scale is gennerally for graphics or pictures. I don't think this will solve your garbled word problems, as they are probably in italic. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 8:05 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] To submit or not to submit a matter of quality
hi you all, got a dilemnia, I am reading "Hot dog" by laurien Berenson, is a pretty good mystery about dogs, showpoodles in fact, and about a mystery of a stolen dachshund, or so the storyhas gone so far. My dilemnia, is this.I have already attempted to rescan this book, so that is not a possiblity atthis point. The text is flaweless, for most of the book except for and it is regular, but I can't figure out why, or how, unless there was a problem in theprinting of this particular paperback copy. But about a line at the bottomwhich usually is one or two words, is garbled beyond any skilledrecognition. I can't figure out what the words are supposed to say. i can figure out the intended meaning, but I don't know if that is the real intentand words of the author. Beyond this the book is perfect. I would like to submit it to the collection when I am done as her books aren't available from NLS,. But... I am going to mark it good, smile. Will anyone read it, and would you consider it a good copy, and is this a case of a book is better than no book?I want to know your thoughts. As I am on chapter nineteen and obviously amenjoying the book exept for those bits of garbled text. By the by I used. Grayscale, 400 dpi, had the book exactly aligned with the left side of the scanner, two page mode on, columns recognized, and Finereader 7 as the OCR engine.There are no other errors that I can find in the book except for Tm for I'mand some junk that is representing the word You, i suspect there is some fancy font, and it is a Mass Market paperback.The paper is not yellowed, or at least it doesn't have that smell, but it is obviously of bad quality paper. But since the discussion of poor scans have come up I was wondering. I mean I am cleaning this thing up to the best ofmy ability and all you perfectionists sparked the trait in me, smile. But let me know what you are thinking. Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com Dog ownership is like a rainbow. Puppies are the joy at one end. Old dogs are the treasure at the other. Carolyn Alexander To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.__________ NOD32 1.1853 (20061103) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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