Hi, Dan. I echo your sentiment here. There are several books I
wouldn't mind fixing up that are in kes format. I think that we as a
group are beginning to submit more content in rtf format. Bookshare
used to really emphasize submitting the scanned files from OCR
packages because they thought they could save it for re-recognition
later. That is still the written policy on the submission area of
the web site. As I'm sure you know, in any organization, there is
policy and then there's the reality of getting things done. I think
that we volunteers have found that submitting books in rtf format
helps to get validations done more quickly and by a wider range of
people with various computer configurations. Books in proprietary
formats seem to linger on the step 1 page since only certain people
have the tools to process them. If no one with the tools is
interested in taking those books, they can get shuffled to the bottom
of the pile. Grace and I have been working on some of the Arkenstone
format books, and I think Mickey has been working on some of the
books in kes format.
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At Thursday 6/8/2006 08:47 AM, you wrote:
E's comments about Kurzweil made me start to wonder about something.
I noticed on the list of books to validate that there are lots of them with formats of KES and ARC. Do the scanning tools have the ability to convert/save the output into an RTF file? I'd like to suggest that if they do that perhaps books should be submitted in that format so all of us can have the opportunity to validate any book. There are a number of books waiting that I'd REALLY like to validate but can't because I can't handle those formats.
any thoughts?
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