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 me
> to go into that but if someone can't afford a scanner and K1000 or even Open
> 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 the
> 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 benefit
> >and still use the service.
> >
> >Amanda Lee
> >
> >
> >
> >
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