Thank you in every case. You are keeping me sane. Dekker has nothing on me while simultaneously writing the ending of a book, handling a total file reorganization to find out what I DO have, decorating for the holidays, and trying to get the CC site online (we are soooo close!) plus get e-books in shape to go.
I have chapter one from Spence.
Chapter two from Eric F.
Chapter 16 is done and sent. Is that it? I think Parsifal did 12 and 13 …
Well I didn’t plan it this way, but I sent the last chapter (#9) minutes ago. You should have all of them now.
Woohoo! It was rewarding helping you, but I need a break now.
…and on the other front – progress! Scans proceeding apace, currently fighting with the OCR software. *grumble*
Chapter 13 has just been sent in.
We now have 1-19 :is that it? I think that’s it! You guys are wonderful.
Okay, late to the posts since I was out of touch for the holidays. CJ, I have just about everything you’ve ever written. And a scanner and OCR software. And time! What can I work on for you?
Echoing Skitterling: what next? Cherryh’s Army stands ready!
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While I wouldn’t say that correcting OCR scans is my favorite form of entertainment, it ***has*** given me a new appreciation for em dashes and ellipses! 😀
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I suspect most of us have most everything you’ve written, CJ. Why not let us help you fill in the blanks in your files?
What about the original Faery in Shadow? I’d like to put that out to go with the new one…
I would help, but I don’t have a copy of Faery in Shadow, sorry.
I have a copy of Faery in Shadow – 1993 copyright, Del Rey/Ballantine hardcover, jacket art by David A. Cherry.
I’ll start scanning tonight. CJ, do you want the jacket art, as well? And where shall I send it? My email’s julianne_renowden@yahoo.com
Chapter 1 of Faery has been sent to your email – working on chapters 2 and 3.
It came—thank you!
Okay, sent you chapters 2 and 3 of Faery. I have scanned chapters 4 through 8 so far and will go over those chapters and get them to you tomorrow. This is fun!
skitterling – what OCR software are you using? I’m scanning in Heavy Time and the scans are going OK, but the OCR is giving me fits.
I’m using the OCR that came with my HP printer/copier/fax/scanner. It’s been amazingly reliable thus far, and has a handy option to convert scanned text directly to Word.
Microsoft Office has a Document Imaging option that can do OCR on TIF files, but it’s a little more unwieldy.
MS OneNote also works very well. I had never used an OCR before and once I had it figured out, it was very easy to use. You simply scan in (I saved the scans to my photo gallery), then go into OneNote, use the insert function to insert the scanned file into a notebook page, then right click the inserted file, choose “copy text from picture”. The text is saved to the clipboard. Open a new Word or WordPerfect document, click paste, and there’s your text ready for cleanup.
The problem I had with my OCR was that it kept taking the spaces out between the sentences and changing the punctuation. that is what took so long to clean up a page.
I can do some scanning on Faery this weekend, but my copy is a different edition – will the chapters match up?
BeulahBelle, I’ve got all the chapters of Faery scanned in already and I’m just proofing them now. CJ’ll have them all by the end of the weekend.
CJ – any other books need scanning?
Anyone who has done anything even if it duplicates, it can be of great use, in case there is a glitch or misread somewhere. Please send what you have, with ever so much gratitude.
The next thing we may need is going to be harder: Jane’s Harmonies of the Net—it’s hard to find, has been sold on Ebay at nearly 100.00 a copy because of its scarcity as a print book, and she would be devastated if anybody damaged their physical copy trying to do it. If we can’t find someone with a copy, we have a basket full of about 50 files, one of which may be the real thing, and it is not lost: but if we could get that, it would be wonderful.
Okay, all sounds good. I don’t have Harmonies of the Net, unfortunately, but may do a bit of looking this weekend – you just never know …
I’ve got the three Harmonies books – I could start at the end of the weekend. Anyone want to split chapters?
Mind, she’s got Groundties and Uplink, she says, but Harmonies has so many files (multiple computer crashes) it’s a nightmare trying to sort out the ones from which the book was printed.
She reiterates she is terribly, terribly grateful, (she is buried in technicals getting the site up at the moment) but wants me to ask you not to harm your book doing it: it’s quite thick, and that stresses the spine.
I will take the greatest care, please assure her. 🙂