[bksvol-discuss] Re: books.google.com
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:51:06 -0500
Evan,
Well I just learned something!
I use K1000 and was getting better results on these particular paperbacks
with the scansoft engine. I have it set to recognize Gaelic but Irish is not
in the list. I just looked in the list of languages that the finereader will
recognize and Irish is there. So I will have to experiment using finereader
instead of scansoft.
The scansoft engine usually recognizes most of the accented characters
correctly, but I do have to fix a fair few.
Thanks for the tip!
Deborah
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:35 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books.google.com
Deborah, I don't know what software you are using, but do you have the
option of recognizing Irish? If so, does it help any with the fada? I set my
K1000 to recognize Irish and Gaelic whenever I'm scanning any books Irish or
Scottish related, and it seems to help quite a bit with the accents that I
know about. I've never heard of the fada until your message; and I don't
proofread the Irish and Scottish books I've scanned. I do those for Lissi. I
will ask her about this. But if you have the capability to set your OCR for
these languages, it may improve recognition.
You sound as though you already know about this, but just in case....
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:13 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books.google.com
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson
> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 1:11 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] books.google.com
>
> 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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