Dear Friends,
Jean, your suggestion that Alex start with OCR is excellent... But
she doesn't need to use an old program... My HP
scanner/printer/copier has a setting in the scanner operation which
allows me to scan in OCR format. Once done, the document can easily
be modified.
So, for a large project like this, Alex would find that investing in
a scanner is just the thing, and will save days and days of
hand-entry. I don't know how I would make lace without my handy
scanner nearby!!
I have found that my scanner made so many errors when using OCR that
it just wasn't worth it. The time it took to proof read and correct
these errors was about equal to typing the whole page in the first
place. It particularly had difficulties with such things as "ll" or
words like "I'll"
David in Ballarat
Clay
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Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA USA
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From: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Alex, have you thought about Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software
> than can scan pages and turn them into documents that can be read by a
> computer? I got a free program on a computer magazine disk 10 year ago
> called 'Textbridge Pro 98', which still works fine on Windows XP. It can
> scan text, columns and magazine pages that can then be edited. Takes a bit
> to set up for a project, but once done is a lot quicker than
typing in page
> after page from scratch. It's a bit crude by today's standards, but there
> must be good cheap (or even public domain) software that's more
> sophisticated now which would make your life much easier.
>
> On the subject of publishing on CD, although we like to think most
> lacemakers are honest, it's so easy to copy a CD, so this isn't
the way I'd
> choose to go to publish.
>
> Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
>
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