*It would, except if the speaker has an accent the software can't adapt to, then it gets confused. That is what happened to me.
Robert * On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:51, William Dukstein <wdukst...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about using speech to text software? Read the text aloud, have the > software transcribe to text, and then just cut and paste. Wouldn't that > work? > > Bill > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM, William Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> That's why I prefer Acrobat Pro since you can select all, copy and paste >> into a word processor or good old Notepad then fix all the errors. Windows >> notepad will eliminate all code. >> >> I scanned most of my genealogy books into Acrobat then had it do an OCR so >> that text could be searched within the program. For books I've had zero >> errors. I use these for doing lookups for people--mostly marriage books for >> DC. >> >> Bill Boswell >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Cheryl Rothwell [mailto:historysle...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:13 AM >> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note >> >> I scan and OCR everything but I generally only OCR to the point of >> making the item word searchable. There are many programs which do that >> pretty well, often arriving with your scanner. All my genealogy docs >> are like that so they will have to be multi media when I get to that. >> >> I haven't found a perfect program to OCR and provide a text document. >> The one hint I can offer is save as .txt rather than letting the OCR >> program format or "retain" formatting of the original. It will kill >> the unnecessary heavy code and be much easier to clean up. If it is >> short it is still easier to retype I think but I often deal with 10-50 >> pages [not genealogy] so clean up is faster. >> >> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Sharon Primbsch <aa...@earthlink.net> >> wrote: >> > >> > Microsoft Office Document Imaging (Office 2003 and perhaps others) might >> do the OCR trick for you.� Look for it in the START menu on Windows as: >> Microsoft Office / Microsoft Office Tools / Microsoft Office Document >> Imaging.� Comments from other people�about cleanup after conversion >> applies... >> > >> > Sharon Primbsch >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: Ron Ferguson >> > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> > Sent: 12/10/2010 12:47:08 PM >> > 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/ >> > >> > >> > From: James Gallagher >> > Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:37 PM >> > To: 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. 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