[Athen] Editing Books
Robert Spangler
rspangler1 at udayton.edu
Wed Feb 6 07:42:59 PST 2019
Thanks. Also do you guys automatically break every book or just when
students ask? I am finding that many of my students prefer just having the
one file to manage.
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:35 AM Bourbeau, Maureen <Maureen.Bourbeau at unh.edu>
wrote:
> Robert,
>
> If you have Acrobat Pro, you can just use the “extract pages” function to
> break the single book file into chapter files. We do that quite a bit now
> as more books are being provided as a single PDF with 800+ pages and
> sometimes the large file size causes trouble for some students to access on
> their laptops, etc.
>
>
>
> *Maureen Bourbeau*
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> *Assistive Technology Specialist*
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> *Student Accessibility Services (SAS)*
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> 201 Smith Hall, 3 Garrison Avenue
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> Durham, NH 03824
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> P: 603.862.2400 | F: 603.862.4043
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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On
> Behalf Of *Robert Spangler
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 06, 2019 9:56 AM
> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <
> athen-list at u.washington.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Editing Books
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> 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).
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> *Susan Kelmer*
>
> *Alternate Format Production Program Manager*
>
> *Disability Services*
>
> *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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
>
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
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Robert Spangler
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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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