Priscilla, The original poster was trying to paste an image file, say of an obituary, into his notes. This cannot be done as Notes will only accept text. Broadly speaking one requires an OCR (optical character recognition) program which will make the conversion.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Glasow, Priscilla A. Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note I've been following this thread and wondering why we need OCR - I'm still very much a novice, folks. I think Bill explained it - so that you can search text. Is that the purpose behind using OCR? Priscilla -----Original Message----- From: William Boswell [mailto:whbosw...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:41 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note That's why I prefer Acrobat Pro since you can select all, copy and paste into a word processor or good old Notepad then fix all the errors. Windows notepad will eliminate all code. I scanned most of my genealogy books into Acrobat then had it do an OCR so that text could be searched within the program. For books I've had zero errors. I use these for doing lookups for people--mostly marriage books for DC. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Rothwell [mailto:historysle...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:13 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note I scan and OCR everything but I generally only OCR to the point of making the item word searchable. There are many programs which do that pretty well, often arriving with your scanner. All my genealogy docs are like that so they will have to be multi media when I get to that. I haven't found a perfect program to OCR and provide a text document. The one hint I can offer is save as .txt rather than letting the OCR program format or "retain" formatting of the original. It will kill the unnecessary heavy code and be much easier to clean up. If it is short it is still easier to retype I think but I often deal with 10-50 pages [not genealogy] so clean up is faster. On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Sharon Primbsch <aa...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Microsoft Office Document Imaging (Office 2003 and perhaps others) might > do the OCR trick for you.� Look for it in the START menu on Windows as: > Microsoft Office / Microsoft Office Tools / Microsoft Office Document > Imaging.� Comments from other people�about cleanup after conversion > applies... > > Sharon Primbsch > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ron Ferguson > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: 12/10/2010 12:47:08 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note > Jim, > > In a nutshell, you can’t! To paste into the Notes the Format must be TXT. > Unless you use an Optical Character Reader you cannot change a JPG to TXT. > This is rather simplified, but the principle holds. > > So what can you do? I would (and do) save then to “Files� in Source > Detail>Multimedia. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > From: James Gallagher > Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:37 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note > > I have a few Newspaper articles that I would like to copy into a person's > note pad without typing them all in. > I have a Epson Artisan 810 scanner, Photo Shop, Corel Viewer and other > viewers. When I scan the newspaper articles they all work fine, but I can > not copy and paste them into a notepad. I tried > a jpg extension and a TXT but nothing works. Someone must have solved this > problem before and I hope they will help me out. > �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� > Thanks > ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� > Jim Gallagher > ________________________________ > 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
