Chuck I do not know what your results were at track, but I tested free OCR and my results were excellent. I scanned several pages of documents consisting of a combination of newspaper articles in column format and straight text in all cases my success rate on transferring to text was close to 98%.
One thing I did notice: all whitespace was removed. In other words, blank lines between paragraphs and indents at the start of paragraphs were ignored. this may be a problem for those purists who insist that OCR programs must preserve format. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 13/12/2010 11:04 AM, Chuck wrote: > If it's an OCR program you are after, you might try _*FreeOCR*_.  I > just downloaded it and am going to test it. From all the reports it > should work as well as any. Nitro is making a couple products that > might do the trick at a lot less cost than adobe Check out Nitro PDF reader. > > Chuck > > On 12/13/2010 7:50 AM, Jan Greeff wrote: >> Sorry I did not follow this discussion from the start but what is the >> issue? >> >> I have been copy/pasting text into my Legacy family tree for years, no >> problem.  >> Jan Greeff >> Posbus 4181 >> Barberton 1300 >> Tel 013 712 2436 Faks 086 659 7704 >> Skype jan.greeff >> Gesondheid sonder grense:www.verslank.net >> Inkomste wat aanhou:http://www.BeMotivatedToday.com/9441 >> >> On 13/12/2010 15:08, Ron Ferguson wrote: >>> Jenny, >>> >>> Sorry for the long delay in answering, I was unsure which computer I had it >>> on since I have not used it since May, and I've had a bug which is doing the >>> rounds here and it just about laid me up for a week. >>> >>> However, I'm afraid it's no longer there on any machine, and I cannot >>> remember its name; I am pretty sure it wasn't FIRe-text. I have also >>> searched the Add-ons and Plug-ins for Firefox without any luck. Funnily >>> enough I was talking to another genealogist at one of the fairs just after >>> using it, and without prompting from me, he also recommended it! >>> >>> I will have another search, but am not optimistic! >>> >>> Ron Ferguson >>> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jenny M Benson >>> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 12:41 PM >>> To:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >>> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note >>> >>> On 11/12/2010 11:31, Ron Ferguson wrote: >>>> Have you tried the Firefox OCR add-on, it is, in my experience the best >>>> (cheap, actually it’s free) one >>>> around. >>> Do you mean FIRe-text? V useful, but not actually OCR software. >>> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >>   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >>   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >>   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
