Cop Song

OCR

Chapman is doing Urinetown The Musical, and I went and saw it tonight. My heart broke a little for longing of that good ol’ feel of the stage (lame, I know), but it was a really great show. I’m not a “musical person,” persay, but I dig a good one every once in a while, you know? ANYWAY, I really dug this song.

Also, in case you are wondering if they are singing about catching people who were trying to pee in secret, they are.

Cop Song - Original Cast Recording of Urinetown The Musical 

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I have a deep desire to streamline my research workflow (and move it entirely into the cloud) – but I don’t have the proper workflow yet. I don’t want to say that such a workflow is nonexistent, but I can’t find any single program that satisfies my desired workflow (I’ve looked at Endnote, Zotero, Biblioscape, Mendeley, and Refworks). The most promising competitor seems to be Evernote, though a comment in a Profhacker post captures my experience very accurately:

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    自炊+読書環境

    図だけ作って、でもこれ結構でかいので解説大変そうだと思っているうちに月日が過ぎて・・って感じできりがないので、ひとまずはってしまいます。うちの自炊と電子読書環境はこんな感じですという記事。

    まず前提として、

    ・テレビ見ながら1時間に10冊とか処理できるようにする
    ・溜めるためではなくて読むための自炊にする 

    これらはできるだけ守ります。

    弾言する。自炊した本の9割は一生見ない!
    http://d.hatena.ne.jp/orangestar/20110908/1315475635

    いやまじでその通りなんですけどw でも自分の場合は、買ってきて読むために自炊するという本が半分ぐらいで、残りは書棚を軽くするための「儀式」なので、そのぶんはこれに当てはまります。

    書棚とかに本が増えてきて圧迫を感じるようになると、本を買うのを躊躇うようになる、というのが普通起こると思う。それが、自分の場合は自炊をするようになってから明らかに本を以前より多く買うようになった。スペースの心配が無くなるってすごいよね。

    なので、CD買ってきてまずiTunesに入れる、のと同じ感覚まで行きたいとは思ってるんだけど、現状いろいろ大変なのは致し方ないなあといったところですな・・

    じゃあいってみよう。

    image

    ではポイントとかを。

    裁断機

    裁断機はまず絶対に必須で、現状だとPLUSのPK-513Lか、謎の安いやつの二択になると思うんだけど、自分は謎の安いやつを使ってます。裁断する前に本を固定するためのレバーをぐるぐる回す面倒はあるんだけど、分厚い本でも何回かにわけず一撃でいけるのは強いと思う。裁断可能厚さ15mmと40mmの差は結構大きいです。

    PLUSのは刃が降りる位置に光のマーカーが当たるので便利というのは、安い方でも同程度にできます。「紙押さえ」に色つきのクリアファイルを両面テープで下から貼り付けて一度裁断するんです。そうすると刃が降りた所でクリアファイルが切れて残るので、以降その残った部分を指標に紙を押さえればOKです。

    スキャナ

    ほぼ一択なので割愛w 選ぶにあたっては給紙容量とスキャン速度、二枚送りの検出機能なんかが手間にダイレクトに響くので重視するといいと思う。あとはAcrobat付属かどうかも大事。

    ファイル形式

    Jpegは読むだけならいいんだけど、とりまわしが悪いのと注釈がつけられないので却下。PDFはなんといってもAcrobatで注釈することができるので、これが強いです。これのおかげで、内容が複雑だったり結構重いような本でもマーカーやメモを入れながら読めて、しかもそれが一覧したり検索したりできます。これは紙で読んでいるよりもずっと良い状況で、内容が重い本ほど紙より画面で読みたいという感じになってきました。

    ラノベ挿絵のための先読みなんかもPDFにしてやってます。設定とか目立つ描写に関わる所がマーク出来て一覧できる、挿絵が必要な部分もリストアップして行き来できる。こっちはもう紙読みはありえないとう領域です。

    PDFは、SonyReaderでも見るなら、モノクロ二値のものが綺麗に縮小されるのでオススメ。というか、他の形式の表示品質が悪いので一択ですね。ChainLPなんかの縮小ツールは非常によくできているんだけど、手間が増えるのと、「それ用」のファイルができて別管理になるので使わないでおいています。

    iPadならパワフルなのでカラー300dpiぐらいの重い形式も綺麗に縮小されて普通に読めます。ただiPad自体が重いです。

    余白のトリミングはAcrobatのトリミング機能でやってます。これは実際には削除せずに「画面外」にする非破壊的な処理なので、安心感も高いです。トリミングの効用は、ノンブルや章タイトルなんかを消しておくとOCRしたときにテキストがクリーンになること、SonyReaderなんかの画面サイズに余裕が無い端末で出来るだけ文字を大きく表示させることができる、ということです。逆にトリミングしておかないとSonyReaderでは少々つらいです。iPadだとトリミングさぼってもわりと読めるし、iPad側で動的に拡大表示すれば済むので楽です。でもiPadは重い。

    OCR

    自作オーディオブックまで行くなら必須。ちまたではAcrobat内蔵のものが品質が高いだろうと信じられているけど、実はたいしたことなくて、e.Typistのほうがずっと良いです。OCRソフトはいろいろ体験版を試したけど、e.Typistが良かった。実際買うのは機能にあんま差がなくて値段が安いe.Typist NEOでいいと思う。ルビを出力しない設定にして読み上げで重複しないようにしています。

    あと、目視で読む用で、マーカーや注釈する用だけでいいやというものについてはAcrobatに一括でOCRテキストを埋め込ませてます。

    自作オーディオブック

    これが案外よくて、絵を描いたり移動とか散歩している間に本が読める。オーディオブックにしておくとiTunesとiPodを同期させて家と外出先で続きを読んでいけるし、だいぶ便利です。

    ただやっぱり、そのための手間は最大になります。1冊あたりの専念時間としては裁断・スキャン含めて10分~15分、処理時間はもっと長いのでながら作業必須。当然、内容が長い本ほど相対的なコストが安くなります。

    読み上げソフト

    これも色々試しました。音声が自然に聞こえたのは「VOICEROID+ 民安ともえ」と、「JukeDox」でした。特にVOICEROID+は声がかわいいし自然だし、値段も安いのですごく有望だったんだけど、現状、本一冊分とかの長い文章を読ませると、ほぼ必ず再生中や出力中に落ちます。たぶんそういう用途を想定してないんだろうけど・・惜しい。

    というわけで、音声が自然でファイル出力機能もあるJukeDoxを使ってます。語彙が少ないとかで変な読み方になる場合が多いけど、そういう言語だと思って聞けばちゃんと聞き取れるようになります。満更(まんざら)を音読みしやがったのはさすがにアレな気分だったけどw

    JukeDoxは最近2が出たけど、開発環境が変わったりGUI大変更したりしてるうちに微妙にデグレっているような気がしなくもないので、フリー版を試してみてからのほうがいいかも。フリー版は音声があまりよくないので、ちゃんと使うならスタンダード版だと思う。

    m4bファイル

    iTunesが普段使うm4a形式と同じなんだけど、拡張子がm4bになっているとオーディオブックとして扱われます。ファイルをiTunesにドロップした時点で「ミュージック」じゃなくて「ブック」に登録される動作。m4aで登録してからミュージックに埋もれた音声ファイルを探してプロパティを変更してブックにする、という操作でもいいんだけど結構大変なので、これも必須の前処理です。

    「”C:\ほげほげ\faac.exe” -w -o %~dpn1.m4b %1」 faacをセットアップしてこんな内容でバッチファイル作っておくと、バッチファイルにwavをドロップするか関連づけしておくだけで、手間無くm4bファイルを作れるようになります。

    といったところで

    全体的に、自炊は完璧主義だと本当にアホみたいに手間がかかって死にます。マスター品質で取り込もうと思わないことだと思う。

    処理や操作が面倒な部分、たとえばモノクロ本のなかの一部のカラーページやカラー表紙、表紙の折り返し、折り込みページ、このあたりはさっさと諦めて、目に焼き付けてさようならで良いです。滞らずに作業できるようにして、たとえばテレビの1時間番組を見ながら10冊取り込めるようになれば悪くないものだと思うし、オーディオブック化とかも、これでライブラリを作ろうとすると死ぬので、音声でよみたいもの数冊をながら作業で作っておく、というスタイルにしてます。

    はー

    わけて書こうと思ったけどもう面倒で一気に書いてしまったw 乱文もご容赦。
    なんか質問あったらどうぞー

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