FW: USA: Online book-sharing service for the blind borrows a page from Napster

[Georgina]

Hi

I thought that they required both formats, the text and its image so that 
when the ocr technology gets better the images can be reprocessed?

I think that it was the k1000 list that suggested that kes files would be 
required for the rerecognising of the pages.

Gena



>They don't require image files.  They will accept image files but will
>hold these until they have the proper technology to convert these into an
>accessible electronic format.  I questioned their acceptance of Image
>files because they are huge and am concerned about their running out of
>storage space for these pigs.  I cringe about it but if this is the only
>way they can receive a book, in moderation, I suppose this isn't all bad.
>
>Amanda Lee
>
>
>
>On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
>
>> Hi Gena,
>> I thought the cost of k1000 and Openbook Ruby were the same.  I run
>> k1000 on a WINDOWS machine and the image files use tiff format.  As far
>> as I know Ruby does as well.  I doubt they want image files though I
>> haven't read their web page yet.  I assume they want processed text.
>>
>>      Jim Wantz
>> On
>> Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Georgina wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Please see my message on the cost of producing these books.  To say that
>> > someone with low income can recooperate some or all of their costs is got 
to
>> > be missleading.
>> >
>> > As you already know my feelings on the cost of K1000 there's no need for m
e
>> > to go into that but if someone can't afford a scanner and K1000 or even Op
en
>> > Book Ruby, how are they going to recooperate some or all of the cost?
>> >
>> > Surely, corretcing is out of the question too?  Firstly, they'd have to go
>> > and buy the book and then be able to compare words and other symbols on th
e
>> > screen with that on the printed pages of the book.
>> >
>> > Furthermore, that's if they can afford to use Windows to use the above ocr
>> > packages.  I understood that the image files were also required, thus only
>> > Windows users might and I say might be the only ones to be able to submit
>> > scanned material.  What is the required format?
>> >
>> > It'll be very interesting to see how many people will be in a position to
>> > submit material to the project.
>> >
>> > Gena
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > >Actually, the cost is $50 per year.  First year there is a $25 setup fee.
>> > >But as stated, if you contribute by submitting books that you scan,
>> > >correct errors and do what they call Publish to submit books already
>> > >uploaded and/or do what is known as Basic Publish whereby you clean-up
>> > >their database to reflect appropriate information about the entried
>> > >therein, you earn fifty cents per title.  To download and correct a book,
>> > >you earn $2.50.  Do ten of those per year, you earn half of your annual
>> > >membership.
>> > >
>> > >So, there are ways that a person with limited income resources can benefi
t
>> > >and still use the service.
>> > >
>> > >Amanda Lee
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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