Hi Monica and Carrie, Well all this is a well deserved rehash of info from
the past, I'd like to point out that while it doesn't seem that OmniPage-15
is real popular, it produces the best overall scan of the three OCR software
programs in question with one caveat. OmniPage-15 drops many headers and
page numbers, but since header removal is generally a good thing and with a
macro to renumber the pages, it produces a near perfect conversion every
time. In most books and this is mass market paperbacks that I'm talking
about, zero scanos, no extra slashes or asterisks and generally the right
number of pages.The amount of time this saves me on the spell check alone
makes the header and renumbering issue a moot point. Tom----- Original
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From: "Monica Willyard" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:00 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: finereader 7 versus 8
Hi, Carrie. Thanks for sharing your results with us. I do have one question for you. I understand that the Bookshare staff want the better OCR engine, and that's reasonable. Are they aware that this page issue may significantly slow down approval of some longer books and some nonfiction? I am asking this because with the current issue in play, books must be read through completely. I believe that some of the more technical books you scan may end up sitting around because few validaters will be interested enough in them to do a thorough reading from cover to cover. Of course, I may be wrong about this. I am asking because I've seen how validaters have responded to textbooks and technical titles in the past. They seem to be content to do a quick section break conversion, a spell check, and upload them. The staff has a lot to deal with, and I'm curious to know if this aspect of approval has occured to them since it might not be obvious at first glance. You have my support no matter which way you go because I know you want to produce the best scans possible. I'm a little daunted by the Ellery Queen book because it has 700 actual pages with headers that change as each story changes plus the extra several hundred odd extra page breaks. Maybe that colors my view of the section break issue so that it seems bigger than it is. :) I'm not giving up on the book, and the text is great. I just wish I had a magic wand to zap the breaks and make them behave. :)
Monica Willyard
At Tuesday 10/17/2006 12:00 AM, you wrote:I went into the Bookshare office today, and chopped and scanned a 128-page book (A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy that I'll submit later this week). I used Finereader 7 to OCR it, and also Finereader 8, and then compared the 2 .rtf files.
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