I save the scanned documents as images. I have yet to see an OCR program that is both affordable and works. For most - it takes so long to correct what the program thinks it saw - incorrectly - you could have typed the entire thing in by hand. And the image can be enlarged to make it readable for older relatives (or me).
Keith On 7/29/07, Gene Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > leo macdonald wrote: > > > I have another question that I hope someone can help me out with, some > > of the BMP files that I have in my program are scanned images of death > > notices that I found in local newspapers, what I would like to be able > > to do is to highlight the write-up on these BMP or JPG files, then copy > > and paste the information into either the death notes field or in the > > notes section of death notice event that I add to the person who has > > died, is this possible? It would certainly save a lot of manual typing. > > Leo > > > Leo, > > The only way to do this is to run the image through an OCR (Optical > Character Recognition) program > to convert the image to a text (ASCII) file. Two that I use are Cuneiform > and ABBY Fine Reader. > You can Google OCR for more. > > > Gene Y. > Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox. > http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ > > > Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 > features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features > at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > For online technical support, please visit > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > -- Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 EMail: GeoSci64 at gmail dot com McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
