[Dtb-talk] Mis-Categorized books on BARD

[Rose Combs]

No you don't want much, everyone talks  OCR but my experiences lately have
left a whole lot to be desired, luckily most of my efforts have been to read
envelops to sort mail to take to my husband who was in the hospital for
weeks, or to see the name of a package, instructions don't seem to scan
well, so with the name I fly over to www.directionsforme.org and find what I
need about 80% of the time anyway.  

Have been alone lot since first of the year, ID-mate does not have some
products, won't read anything generic, so tried to scan with Open Book and
Pearl but those scans are not great, K1000 no longer works for some reason
and I have been too busy to find out why plus my very old HP scanner is no
longer working.  I have been managing with a lot of trial and error but I
sure don't want to do whole books any longer as I did several years ago with
K1000 and the HP scanner.  


Rose Combs
rosecombs at Q.com


-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:57 AM
To: 'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Mis-Categorized books on BARD

I'd guess that much of this is scanned in.  It's one reason I haven't bought
an OCR engine yet.  I expect an OCR engine to make one mistake per twenty
two-column, single-spaced print pages.  I don't want much, do I?

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Rose Combs
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:46 AM
To: 'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Mis-Categorized books on BARD

I don't know and someone up there needs to know that we no longer use an l
for the 1 on computers, drives me crazy when I see a date of l995 for
example.  

Rose Combs
rosecombs at Q.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Dale Heltzer
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:52 AM
To: 'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'
Subject: [Dtb-talk] Mis-Categorized books on BARD

Who else is bothered by the many errors in categorizing titles on the BARD
site?
Where is their Quality Control?

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Dale E. Heltzer
deheltzer at msn.com


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