lest the message be missed
lest the main message be missed in all the minutiae... you can take an average p-book from scans to e-book in one evening. one evening. the people who want to convince you that it's difficult are _wrong_. the fastest and _easiest_ way to get a million p-books digitized is for one million people to convert one book in the next month or two. *** also, for the record, all of the global changes i made to "my antonia" are completely reversible, if you're smart enough to know what you're doing. -bowerbird
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:03:10 EST, Bowerbird@aol.com <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
also, for the record, all of the global changes i made to "my antonia" are completely reversible, if you're smart enough to know what you're doing.
If you're "smart enough", you could just retype the book from memory. Completely reversible, provided that you're already familiar with the work (which you have to be, else you wouldn't know that Antonia needs an accent), is a pretty lousy standard.
Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
lest the main message be missed in all the minutiae...
you can take an average p-book from scans to e-book in one evening.
one evening.
With some of the OCR I've seen latesly, this is probably about 90% right, for 90% of books, provided you can get good scans, and provided you are willing to let a few hard-to-detect classes of error go until post-production. -- RS
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