[bksvol-discuss] Re: for braille readers
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:15:11 -0600
Cindy,
The OCR software could also be responsible for placing asterisks in the scan
if the book scanned is in the same condition as the one you found at the
library.
OpenBook has a field for specifying a default character for characters that
can not be identified by the OCR software. The default for this field is
the asterisk. Since this isn't actually an OpenBook feature, but an OCR
software setting that OpenBook is allowing the user to set, I would imagine
that it would apply to just about any book submitted since K-1000 and
OpenBook use the same, or nearly all of the same, OCR software packages, and
those are the same packages which volunteers not using specialized software
would be using. For example, both OpenBook and K-1000 allow for using
FineReader for recognizing text, but this is also what many sighted
volunteers might be using since it's available for purchase on its own.
It's the one which Carrie uses at the Bookshare office, and I believe you've
mentioned that it's the one you use as well. If you dug through your
settings for FineReader, you'd probably find a setting like I'm describing.
HTH
Gerald
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Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 6:43 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: for braille readers
Jill,
Ipicked up the book this afternoon. It's an old
paperback with small print on somewhat yellowed paper,
so it's possible that the asterisk is for some words
that the validator couldn't decipher.
BUT--I haven't read ait yeat, but I hve thunbed it,
and I found several places where parts of poems are
quoted. I haven't read all my mail, but I have read
the "for Braille readers" posts, and the fact that you
mentioned that at least one of the symbols seems to be
between two sets of quotation marks leads me to
believe that they may be caused by the quoted poem
parts, especially because in one case the quotation
ends with a single quote mark followed by a double
quote mark.
In the edition I have, the first poem is on page 48,
in section four of Chaapter 2.
Let me know where the marks show up in your braille
copy. If you can give me the chapter and section,m and
then maybe a line or two before, I'll be able to find
it in my copy. In case by some chance they're the
same--and I doubt it because I saw another slightly
larger and better copy in the bookstore after I took
this one out--my copy is Warner Books
edition,copyright 1975 by P. D. James but re-issued by
Warner Books in 1987.
Cindy
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