[nabs-l] Reading Through a Textbook

[Keri Svendsen]

hello,


Many authors do funky things to texts like overusing hyphenates to make 
some points.

It sounds like this is the case, since no OCR I've ever seen adds in 
extra -s


thanks,
On 9/16/2017 9:19 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via NABS-L wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Thank you for your responses. I greatly appreciate the immediate feedback.
>
> However, It does not appear as though the hyphenated words are a part of the original text. There is enough of them that makes the text rather unreadable. Most of the hyphenated words appear on the same line of text. So it is not like the word is being split up because there is not enough room for it at the end of a line.
>
> Reading the text in Braille is not an option for me. And even if it was an option for me, I would probably still be frustrated by the fact that it does not appear as though the format of the text is correct.
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NABS-L [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of chelsea peahl via NABS-L
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 9:07 PM
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> Cc: chelsea peahl <chelsea.peahl at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading Through a Textbook
>
> Hi!
> If the original text, as in the textbook, is hyphenated, then you'd have to individually do the editing.
>
> Chelsea Peahl
>
>> On Sep 16, 2017, at 6:45 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I recently received one of my textbooks from the disabilities office. However, I was rather disappointed that I could not read through it rather easily due to a lot of hyphenated words that sound funky while using a screen reader. So I tried scanning the book on my own and got the same results. Does anyone know of an easy way to correct all the hyphenated words that appear in my textbook without correcting every hyphenated word indivisually? I have a reading assignment that is due on Monday, so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Elizabeth
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Keri Svendsen