[Athen] Editing Books

[Robert Spangler]

Hello, the single full book file is text-based but usually when breaking it
down into chapters, we do this by going to print -> Microsoft Print to PDF,
the newly created chapter files need to have OCR applied.  This is not
always the case - I broke out a chapter earlier via this method and OCR had
already been applied.  I am blind myself and using a screen reader, so I am
able to tell right away if it's readable or not.

Thanks for the advice; I will look into getting a quote for upgrading ABBYY
in that case.

Robert


On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 9:38 AM Susan Kelmer <Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu>
wrote:


> Are you saying that you are running OCR on scanned PDF files?  Because

> with most of the files coming from publishers these days, running OCR is

> not necessary, as they are already text-based (and usually pretty well

> tagged).

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> We are an Omnipage shop here, but even with Abbyy, if you are going this

> route, you need to keep up with the latest versions, which work better and

> faster than the old ones.

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> *Susan Kelmer*

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> *Alternate Format Production Program Manager*

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> *Disability Services*

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> *University of Colorado Boulder*

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> *303-735-4836*

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Robert Spangler

> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:16 AM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* [Athen] Editing Books

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>

> Hello, currently our student workers are using Adobe Acrobat Reader for

> splitting books into chapters and ABBYY for making any necessary edits.

> Most of the time we're just using Acrobat to split the book into chapters

> by printing each chapter to a separate PDF then running it through ABBYY

> for OCR.

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> We have an old version of ABBYY, version 11.  Would there be any benefits

> to upgrading to the latest version?  Obviously it's newer, but are there

> any compelling reasons?  Also, is there any reason to use ABBYY instead of

> Adobe Acrobat Pro, which some people in my office are asking for?

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> Thanks for your feedback.

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> Robert

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Robert Spangler
Disability Services Technical Support Specialist
rspangler1 at udayton.edu
Office of Learning Resources (OLR) - RL 023
Ryan C. Harris Learning & Teaching Center (LTC)
University of Dayton  | 300 College Park  |  Dayton, Ohio 45469-1302
Phone: 937-229-2066
Fax: 937-229-3270
Ohio Relay: 711 (available for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing)
Web Site: http://go.udayton.edu/learning
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