Proof reading Modules Before sale!

[Zacchaeus]

I've got to say that is shockingly bad and just not up to any kind of standard. I've drawn James' attention again to this post and to your screenshots so that the developer can be informed. Thanks for taking the time to report this.

[Jiminimonka]

Is the Wilderness Survival Guide taken from a pdf or text document, or a OCR scan? I bought that book when I was at college which was a long time ago....

[hawkwind]

Drivethru pdf

[Jiminimonka]

Drivethru pdf

Do you know if it is a text pdf or just scanned images?

That would make the adaptation to FG a lot more complex.

[bayne7400]

It is probably OCR. It happens on alot of these modules. I actually run the conversion DB.xml through a spell check when I did old conversions. It is what probably needs to happen here.

[JohnD]

This kind of stuff is pretty common when working with PDFs of old content, especially when one of the horizonal and/or vertical columns are filled with some kind of quasi etched symbols/visuals. That stuff really throws off the OCR for some reason.

[jharp]

You should also take into account that the person who converted it only gets $3 per sale. My guess there were fewer than 50 sales. The book is scanned images so OCR....

So you balance time vs quality vs having to do it yourself.

Jason

[damned]

You should also take into account that the person who converted it only gets $3 per sale. My guess there were fewer than 50 sales. The book is scanned images so OCR....

So you balance time vs quality vs having to do it yourself.

Jason

Wizards products you get even less commission on....

[celestian]

It is probably OCR. It happens on alot of these modules. I actually run the conversion DB.xml through a spell check when I did old conversions. It is what probably needs to happen here.

This is what I do. It would capture 80-90% of this. You'll still get some that fall through but you have to spell check any of these PDFs imported.

The best way to get a response on something like this is to email support and they will contact the author of the product conversion.

I don't think I know this person personally or I'd ping them.

[scoot138]

I am looking at what was submitted and will push the fixes, I am guessing something in my repository wasn't pulled down before I submitted this one!, my bad!