You can try the OCR - but my experience is not good. I have MANY documents saved as jpg and (if you leave them big enough) - you can easily zoom to see the detail with no problems. I still think that is the best solution.
Keith On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Pam O'Dell <pamodel...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Bill, > > You could check your printer information and see if an OCR file is > included. If so, just > install it and when you scan the item it will give you the option to save as > text. Mine > works great. > > Pam > >> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:34:38 +0200 >> From: mike...@iafrica.com >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to scan and copy a text record int Legacy >> "Events" >> >> Bill Rhodes wrote: >> > I have some copies of Revolutionary War military records, typewritten >> > from the original, which I have been trying to scan to a file, then copy >> > & paste into Legacy "Events". I am trying to avoid time consuming >> > re-typing. Even though I change the image from jpg to text or PDF I >> > cannot copy them - I am unable to highlight the text and do a control c. >> > I've tried every trick I know but no luck. What am I doing wrong and >> > what is the correct way? >> >> That won't work. Scanning produces an image. To cut and paste text you >> need to be able to convert your image into a document. >> >> To do that, you need an extra piece of software that performs OCR >> (Optical Character Recognition). The basic idea is that the software >> can, given some basic details about the image, translate individual >> patterns of pixels into an ASCII character. Be aware, most OCR software >> is not very good at this because of the poor images they have to work >> from, and you'll spend a lot of time correcting what the OCR software >> thinks it has read. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Mike Fry >> Johannesburg. >> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> Archived messages: >> 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 >> >> >> > > ________________________________ > Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. Check it out. > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > 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 -- Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 EMail: geosc...@gmail.com McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: 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
