For a small booklet, it might be quicker to give the booklet to a fast typist to convert the contents to a text file, then simply relay it out. Had this situation about 2 years ago. The 5.25 drive wasn't a problem, but - after someone spent three days solid trying to track down conversion stuff for an obsolete Phillips wordprocessor program, one of the faster-fingered members of staff typed the lot up into a text file in one day. Relay out took another. Was a good reminder to look for the simpler answer before the complex one.
Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Roderick Singleton" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.openoffice.questions,gmane.comp.openoffice.general Cc: <[email protected]>; "Chris BONDE" Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:19 AM Subject: Re: Old,old 2 b converted > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:27 -0800, Chris BONDE wrote: > > Which forum? users, discuss. > > I think users. > > > > > I belong to an organization that has a small booklet printed with dot matrix on > > coloured paper 8.5 by 11. We need to set it up for a smaller paper size and a better > > printer. > > > > I have tried my new inexpensive scanner, Canon with OmniPage SE. However, the > > dot matrix leaves many of the tails off hence a 'y' becomes a ' v', 'p' an 'o' etc. > > Further the coloured paper and light print causes problems. But why use the > > scanner when you have the disk you might ask. Well, if anyone can suggest how I > > can obtain info off a 5 1/4 disk with Apple works II e. Then maybe I can. I think > > that I might be able to resurrect the disc drive for 5 1/4 on windows based machine > > but the rest is something else. > > > > Any suggestions, please? > > > > Chris BONDE > > > > > > I would suggest that you try OCR. Here are some that are open source or > free: > > http://jocr.sourceforge.net/download.html > http://www.simpleocr.com/ > http://www.xsane.org/xsane-win32.html (maybe) > http://www.irislink.com/ps/uk/products/corporate/index.html (demo) > > I also found a couple on a French shareware site at one point but did > not pursue them. > -- > Documentation Co-Lead --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
