[Athen] Alt format production question

[Berkowitz, Daniel J]

Anyone else notice that Ron sent this out to the list on the morning of
Thanksgiving? Now THAT's dedication!

We are averaging between 170 and 200 books per semester. We used to
outsource everything necessary to Kinko's and they could only send us
back PDF files. Now that we have an in-house scanner we are doing more
in-house direct into tiff and Word or HTML. I'd say we have gone from
half our books in PDF to less than a third.

 
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Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director
Boston University Office of Disability Services
19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor
Boston, MA 02215
 
(617) 353-3658 (office)
(617) 353-9646 (fax)
djbrky at bu.edu (eMail)
www.bu.edu/disability
 

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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Teresa Wells Haven
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:42 AM
To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'
Subject: Re: [Athen] Alt format production question

Hello, Ron.  Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving as well.

We currently only produce perhaps 5% of our books from PDF source files;
some semesters it is less, some more -- it depends on which publishers
send us PDF files in response to our requests for electronic book files.
We used to request Word files but have recently changed and begun
specifically requesting PDF files since we can do a better job of
producing quality alt media from them than from text extractions.  Our
production quantity ranges anywhere from 50 to 300 or more books each
term; it depends on how many books are already available from other
sources (RFB&D, AMX, our own archives, etc.) as well as how many
requests we receive from students.  

Hope this helps,

Teresa

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Teresa Wells Haven, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Assistive Technology
Center for Students with Disabilities
ARKU 104
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479-575-3104 (voice)
479-575-7445 (fax)
479-575-3646 (tdd)
ada at uark.edu
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	 -----Original Message-----
	From: 	athen-bounces at athenpro.org
[mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]  On Behalf Of Ron Stewart
	Sent:	Thursday, November 23, 2006 10:13 AM
	To:	'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network';
'Alternate Media'
	Subject:	[Athen] Alt format production question

	Good morning, and a happy Thanksgiving as well.

	I have a question that maybe you can all help me with, what
percentage of your e-text production comes from a PDF source file?  It
would also be helpful to know what quantity of books you are doing on an
average is as well.

	Ron Stewart << File: ATT00024.txt >>  << File: ATT7016655.txt >>