That's one thing I like about a flatbed scanner. I can scan and save a particular article or paragraph to anywhere I want on my computer. Even print out just the highlights I've saved on a subject. With OCR (optical character recognition) I can save and edit. Once a friend loaned us a book with photographs of object we are very interested in and a little bit of text about each one in the captions. I went through and saved as jpegs the photos I particularly wanted and then used a pen scanner with oCR and "captured" the text for each. Put them in AppleWorks draw document (before the days of Pages) and have a very nice reference for my interests.
Of course all this takes time but then what else would I be doing? Anne Cartwright On Mar 19, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Profile wrote: > I would LOVE to have all magazines digital, I talk to the Zino folks > about ever six months. http://www.zinio.com/home?ns=usa > > Once they get the articles so they can be saved I will stop all paper > subscriptions. For one thing I hate killing the trees but I also want > to save only what I need from a publication and so far they don't > allow this so I continue on with paper. > > I would also like the same feature from a book, saving the paragraphs > or chapters I want to keep for an archive on a particular subject. > One day..... > > > John _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
