[bksvol-discuss] Re: Feeling like scanning, but don't know what to scan?
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:16:45 -0600
If you are afraid of scanning and submitting let us provide some help. That
is one thing we all seem to agree on. :-)
If you tell us the software, tools, and methods you use to scan and/or
validate books detailed specific advice can be given, then you can decide
whether what works for others will also work for you.
Pictures do result in a garbled mess sometimes, but usually you will not
have to pick text out from the picture mess. You can usually identify it
for what it is and just delete the glob of garbage. If you simply can not
face doing that task let the validator know how much you have or have not
edited, and that you are available if they have questions or need pages
rescanned, by writing that in the comment field at the end of the submit
form. There are people willing to take on editing when they know that the
person who submitted the book really cares about it, and let's them know
what they are getting into. Usually scans don't come out that bad, so why
not see how it works for you. Sometimes the OCR software is even kind
enough to recognize it is trying to make text out of the impossible and
gives up before making garble out of the pictures. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
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