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Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah!
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox
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Relatives. Meh.
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Pensively observing.
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Device: Varied.
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![]() At the moment I am also feeling (like yourself) just a bit hurt by the actions (or inactions) of someone else. At the end of the day, all they have managed to do is to lose a friend. Not a good start to the New Year for them. I hope that this will blow over Phenomeshel and remember, "this too shall pass'. Cheers. |
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New York Editor
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Device: PalmTX, Pocket eDGe, Alcatel Fierce 4, RCA Viking Pro 10, Nexus 7
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Still, Google behind this and having it as open source is very good news. ______ Dennis |
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#7219 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6
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DRM!!!!!!
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New York Editor
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Device: PalmTX, Pocket eDGe, Alcatel Fierce 4, RCA Viking Pro 10, Nexus 7
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One of the issues you face is that each page will be a scanned image, which will be seperately OCRed, and the results saved to different files. Those files must be combined to be a complete book, and there the trouble starts. You're running into the divisions between files. Which version of Word are you running, and how were you bringing the files into Word to edit? The last time I had to OCR stuff, I wasn't concerned with keeping formatting, and saved to text. I combined the text files from the command line (copy file1.txt+file2,txt+file3.txt... newfile.txt), then brought that into my preferred text editor for cleanup. (I generally use Notepad++, but have a dozen or so others installed. Among other things, I maintain a wiki devoted to text editors, and am always looking at new ones. See http://TextEditors.org) ______ Dennis |
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ZCD BombShel
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA)
Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis
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Kenny, can I just say a great big "AMEN" to that?? |
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#7222 | |
Wizard
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Virginia
Device: SurfacePro, SurfaceBook 2
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I haven't fiddled with the new software very much, though. Reader Library failed to launch on my computer last night and I had to do a complete uninstall and reinstall and now my computer will not recognize my reader device so I will have to do a hard reset. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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space cadet
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle area
Device: Rocket PRO, gen3, Pocketbook360
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AFter that, its easier to start the proofreading stage. In my opinion, if you are intending to do any serious amount of OCR work, then purchasing a full version of the OCR engine of your choice will be best. The clipped versions that ship with the scanner are only intended to be good enough to entice you to buy the full version. On my full version of Omnipage, I can load multiple files at once, which will then be recognized as one document for OCR processing. I'm still annoyed by how emdashes are sometimes there and sometimes not, and I still get a lot of trouble with Capital I and lowercase l. And somebody, please make a spellcheck engine that will suggest a replacement because of a likely OCR error instead of a likely typing error! |
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#7224 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Clarabell: His eyes, wet.
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I've played with Book Designer a bit, but I'm not the fan some others on MR are. It has too many quirks that must be worked around, like the insistence on full justification as the default. The one function I've found useful is the ability to build a TOC, and I've experimented a bit with using that, then copying the TOC code from the HTML BD generates and pasting it into the original HTML source. Quote:
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My SD cards are all fine, but one practice I follow is not automatically buying the cheapest I can find. Thre are about four manufacturers of the flash media used in cards - Hitachi, Panasonic, SanDisk, and Toshiba. Card vendors all buy from one of them in OEM deals and put the media in their own packaging. I prefer a "brand name" (usually SanDisk) to get cards I feel relatively sure won't fail on me at an inopportune time. The one problem I've had is file system corruption, but that's endemic to FAT formatted volumes on disk or card. Putting the card in a USB reader and running CHKDSK /F on it fixes the issue. ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 12-30-2009 at 12:04 PM. |
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#7226 |
Complicated Warlock
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Madiganistan
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New York Editor
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#7228 |
Lord of the Universe
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Maturin , Venezuela
Device: Sony Reader PRS-505 / PSP
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Stupid wide margins on epubs !!!!
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#7229 |
When's Doughnut Day?
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Houston, TX, US
Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad
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I hate epub (although I like the idea of it). But I hold out hope that soon publishers will realize that the formating of their ebooks is as important for marketing as the quality of the paper, fonts, and cover art were for pbooks and will therefore pay more attention to it. And the publishers in turn will make vendors of readers (like Sony) pay some more damn attention to their lousy, stinking firmware.
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#7230 |
Storm Surge'n
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Polar Vortex
Device: S0ny PRS-300/350/505/700/T1
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