[bookcourier] Re: Hidden BC feature

  • From: "Ian Robinson" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:44:39 -0000

Hi Debee,

Many thanks for mentioning the change with the form feed character.

some of the magazines I get have there articles separated by an ASCII 12. I've tried reading them on the BC in the past, but navigating was difficult. After reading your message, I've just tried a magazine that arrived this morning and I was able to quickly flick through the articles.

Thanks to Springer for implementing the feature and to yourself for telling me about it! :-)

Ian

----- Original Message ----- From: "Debee Norling" <debee@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 1:03 AM
Subject: [bookcourier] Hidden BC feature


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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