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That is in addition to getting the css straight, modifying it so it will fit in the space of an ereader, shrinking pictures so they don't overlap pages etc. All of which shows that the output of PDF to epub places can't be useable, even at extremely low wages.
For me it is really hard to stick with it for more than an hour or so. My mind begins to wander. (or wonder why I am putting myself through this!) (LOL) I often work a couple of hours in the morning and move on to other things. It takes several weeks. |
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Absolutely. I do about an hour a day. No more than that. It's impossible to maintain concentration for longer, for me.
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There was a thread recently about using text to speech set at a high rate to quickly get through books. Perhaps that would be useful for finding wrong words in the text speedily. P.S. I made up the phrase "comprehension engine" because I have no idea what that part of the process is called. Last edited by rkomar; 09-30-2014 at 10:08 AM. |
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I don't think so. I suspect that unless they have a "photographic" memory, speed readers take in whole words without really looking at them. Good enough for reading many things, but not good enough for proofreading. There are a number of words that are very similar in appearance, but not the same in meaning.
There might be something to be said for recognition by different OCR engines and comparing them, but then again maybe not. |
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I didn't mean, the REGULARS. (Or, in the case of this group, The Irregulars). I meant, the drop-ins. {sniffle, wounded feelings}. OF COURSE The MR Irregulars do it!!! I meant, those that hit-and-run here, looking for the silver bullet. Hitch |
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I know, Hitch. Just pulling your leg
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Again my friend you're talking about English and its 26 letters. Have you ever, to give an example, tried to scan Polish or Hungarian books? I am sure no. And even there there are errors that need human proofing, like I and l (capital i and small L). I know there are programs that can learn the characters/glyphs but still have the English rules (there are languages where "i" is written as such, for instance).
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You have to accept the fact that no OCR program is perfect, and that proof-reading is always going to be essential, but good OCR programs are very good indeed, and should certainly (for novels at least) get you to the "one error every few pages" level of accuracy, which is really all that you can hope for. |
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Didn't expect these many responses.. Thanks so much everyone.
Just to confirm these: 1. Can I continue with 1dollarscan's 600 dpi scans for my books that are similar? 2. Anything beyond that dpi is an overkill, right? Thanks again for your time.. |
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BTW Finereader's Tools, Options, Read allows you to set just what you want it to do in terms of learning.
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It depends on the text being scanned. A small font would benefit from a 1200 dpi scanning resolution, whereas a normal font probably wouldn't. If the text has been printed such that the letters are close together, then you need to scan at a resolution high enough to make sure that the letters remain separated in the images. Letters that end up touching in the scans lead to lots of errors when doing OCR. The majority of books will be fine when scanned at 600 dpi, but the ones with dense printing (to economize on the number of pages) might be better scanned at 1200 dpi. You may want to go through the books you want scanned, and sort the books into 600 and 1200 dpi piles. 1200 dpi for all books would certainly be overkill.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/j18r16ed7t...0Page.pdf?dl=0 I feel that this book isn't too dense. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks again. |
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