[bookcourier] Hidden BC feature
- From: "Debee Norling" <debee@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:03:35 -0800
I discovered a cool new feature when I updated that I think the BC folks
forgot to document.
I scan books for a living so I'm pretty good at doing it 50 different ways.
I discovered if I was careful to ensure that a text file has a formfeed
character, (ASCII decimal 12, CTRL-L) separating each page, that BC
navigates correctly to the next page.
If you save a PDF as text, it won't have these page breaks. If you save a
Word document as "plain" text" it won't either. But save a word document as
ASCII text, save a Kurzweil (100 or 300) file as text and you will have
proper form-feed characters. If you save an OmniPage file as text you do not
get form-feeds and I will report when I figure out how to get OmniPage to
put them in to text. Probably it is an option you you supply when you export
to text that's off by default.
If your page numbers OCR correctly you then can tell what printed page you
are on with page navigation. I find this very helpful.
--Debee
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