[Dtb-talk] Producing DAISY Algebra Textbook

[Mireia Ribera]

Dear James,

Infty reader is an OCR specialized in math expressions that may help 
you.  The @science project published guidelines and a compilation of 
tools which may also be of interest 
(http://www.ascience-thematic.net/en/tools).

Yours,

Mireia Ribera
Universitat de Barcelona

El 01/12/2010 22:44, James McCarthy escribió:
> This is my first post to this list and it is quite possible that I will show
> a true lack of knowledge in the subject area, but following the only bad
> question is the one not asked rule, I have a question.
>
>
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> I am trying to convert a PDF file of a basic college algebra text to DAISY.
> I am using Dolphin EasyConverter to do this. For this particular conversion,
> I am most interested in the mp3 audio file reading in some way that makes
> sense.  Some of the symbols seem not to be showing up in the document
> following OCR. Those most troublesome are the square root or radical signs
> and exponent signs. There may be others as well.
>
>
>
> Perhaps I need different software; perhaps I would benefit by using a
> different OCR engine; perhaps there are language settings in the OCR
> settings that should be adjusted; all thoughts are welcomed.
>
>
>
> James McCarthy, J.D.
>
> Maryland Accessible Textbook Program Coordinator
>
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