[bksvol-discuss] Re: books.google.com
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:57:46 -0600
Hi Deborah!
BTW, that is the spelling of my full name too.
I have modified what I said in my previous post.
After a short while, I disagreed with the Google Books search, because of
the scano being Mir6, because I have come across a 6 like that also when I
have scanned and a Spanish word or name appeared in the text and I hadn't
changed my secondary language in OpenBook to Spanish but left it as
English, so I have replaced them all to Miró since I have found that the ó
was recognized as a 6 in my scans in the past, and it was recognized
correctly a little later in the book by Kurzweil, the submitter's software
of choice, so I knew that there was an acute accent on the o.
Debby
At 10:13 AM 1/17/2010, Deborah Murray wrote
Unfortunately, many of the scans on books.google.com have errors.
I discovered this while scanning the series of Irish mysteries I'm currently
working on.
Many of the Irish words and names have a fada, which looks like the French
acute accent mark. These are often misrecognized. For example, a letter "a"
with the fada will be recognized as a letter "d". I have found these same
errors in the books on books.google.com. When I get sighted help or use my
cctv I find that the word in question has an accented letter.
I have found that I often get better results by doing a general search on
google for the word or phrase in question.
Deborah
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Hi everyone!
I appreciate learning about books.google.com on this list a few months ago,
because it came in handy tonight and I was able to find the information I
was looking for.
I am proofreading "The Sands of Time" by Sidney Shelton. In chapter one,
page 1, there was a name that was recognized as Jaime Mir6, which is really
Jaime Miro according to the information on Google Books. I was thinking it
had an acute accent on the o because of the 6, which I have come across
while scanning, but, I guess I'll stick with the plain o as Google shows.
Debby
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