Yeah, I thought of that and it would surprise me if there were diagrams or
pictures, this being a horror fiction novel, but it was just odd seeing four
pages in a row like that. I've written to the author's email address but
have yet to hear back.
Thanks, Scott
Sounds like a few pages of pictures or maps or something. If the text fits together I wouldn't worry about it. Different scanning engines work more or less hard at picking text out of immages so results can be different. One thing you could do would be to look at the copyright material at the beginning of the book. You often find a note that illustrations were either done by the author or by someone else. If there is a statement to that affect you can be confident that the blank or junk filled pages are illustrations. Unfortunately there might not be such a statement even if there are illustrations.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 2:54 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] strange scanning experience
HI all,
Just completed scanning a paperback novel which came out quite nice, with the exception of four pages. When I scanned those pages, and I'm using Openbook by the way, all I got back were a few lines of random text. The text immediately before and after the seemingly missing section appears to fit together, so I'm leaning towards the possibility of a couple blank pages in the book. Does this happen often, blank pages in the midst of a novel? I've scanned the book on multiple scanners, using Kurzweil and omnipage as well, and both of those programs thought the pages were blank.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Thanks, Scott
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