There are a number of products which can convert .jpg to text. One which
many people already have is Microsoft OneNote which comes with virtually
every version of MS Office. It is too frequently ignored and underrated.
Basically, paste the .jpg onto a OneNote page, right click "Copy text from
picture", then use "paste" into whatever application you want.
Yes, it may need some cleanup, but I haven't found that difficult.
Newspapers are the worst, because of muddy type and lots of words broken over
line ends.
Mike
Michael J Method
family research of: Method, Feehily, Fredrick, Herzog, tenEyck, Belsley
In a message dated 12/11/2010 6:32:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk writes:
Have you tried the Firefox OCR add-on, it is, in my experience the best
(cheap, actually it’s free) one around.
Ron Ferguson
_http://www.fergys.co.uk/_ (http://www.fergys.co.uk/)
From: _William Boswell_ (mailto:whbosw...@gmail.com)
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 12:50 AM
To: _legacyusergr...@legacyusers.com_
(mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com)
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note
My experience with OCR shows that most software does not read text
correctly especially if the image is poor so it might be faster just to retype.
Otherwise, if you have to do a lot of clean up of OCR text by proofreading
it is faster to type it and get it right the first time.
I wish you could convert a JPG to a TXT for scanned text. Wouldn’t that
be great.
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:47 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note
Jim,
In a nutshell, you can’t! To paste into the Notes the Format must be TXT.
Unless you use an Optical Character Reader you cannot change a JPG to TXT.
This is rather simplified, but the principle holds.
So what can you do? I would (and do) save then to “Files” in Source
Detail>Multimedia.
Ron Ferguson
_http://www.fergys.co.uk/_ (http://www.fergys.co.uk/)
From: _James Gallagher_ (mailto:gallagher.jame...@yahoo.com)
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:37 PM
To: _legacyusergr...@legacyusers.com_
(mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com)
Subject: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note
I have a few Newspaper articles that I would like to copy into a person's
note pad without typing them all in.
I have a Epson Artisan 810 scanner, Photo Shop, Corel Viewer and other
viewers. When I scan the newspaper articles they all work fine, but I can not
copy and paste them into a notepad. I tried
a jpg extension and a TXT but nothing works. Someone must have solved this
problem before and I hope they will help me out.
Thanks
Jim Gallagher
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