RE: [LegacyUG] To Geoff - Text/Comments versus Scanned Image
Olwyn, Sorry, I don’t use any OCR software. I just haven’t found that with genealogy data it is as accurate as would meet my expectations. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation ge...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com From: Olwyn Bourne [mailto:dobou...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 1:54 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] To Geoff - Text/Comments versus Scanned Image Geoff are you a touch typist? Do you use any OCR software? If yes,what is it? Whatever you use is what I will use (you can email directly). Now don't tell me off because this is not about Legacy per se. It is Legacy which has created the need. Like Jenny I spend a lot of time typing and for a pick and pecker that's a lot of effort (although worth it) Olwyn From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Text/Comments versus Scanned Image Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:19:46 +0100 On 21/08/2011 16:51, Priscilla Glasow wrote: Do I need to type an entire document's contents into the Text/Comments tab in the Source Detail if I've scanned the document and have it linked to the source? I don't see the purpose of this and would like to save myself from the extensive time and effort needed to type in the text of each document. I didn't bother to enter the full text version if I had scan of the document attached, but following one of Geoff's webinars (1) I have been doing so because Geoff said that he did this so that all the text would be available if he sent someone a Gedcom. Seemed like a good idea. (1) Geoff, if you only knew the amount of extra work I have been doing since watching your webinars...! -- Jenny M Benson 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] To Geoff - Text/Comments versus Scanned Image
Geoff are you a touch typist? Do you use any OCR software? If yes,what is it? Whatever you use is what I will use (you can email directly). Now don't tell me off because this is not about Legacy per se. It is Legacy which has created the need. Like Jenny I spend a lot of time typing and for a pick and pecker that's a lot of effort (although worth it) Olwyn From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Text/Comments versus Scanned Image Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:19:46 +0100 On 21/08/2011 16:51, Priscilla Glasow wrote: Do I need to type an entire document's contents into the Text/Comments tab in the Source Detail if I've scanned the document and have it linked to the source? I don't see the purpose of this and would like to save myself from the extensive time and effort needed to type in the text of each document. I didn't bother to enter the full text version if I had scan of the document attached, but following one of Geoff's webinars (1) I have been doing so because Geoff said that he did this so that all the text would be available if he sent someone a Gedcom. Seemed like a good idea. (1) Geoff, if you only knew the amount of extra work I have been doing since watching your webinars...! -- Jenny M Benson 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] To Geoff - Text/Comments versus Scanned Image
On 21/08/2011 21:53, Olwyn Bourne wrote: Do you use any OCR software? If yes,what is it? Whatever you use is what I will use (you can email directly). I am not Geoff (in case you hadn't noticed!!) but I find ABBYY Screenshot Reader (which I think might have been recommended by a LUGger - many thanks) very useful for quickly copying text from web pages to Legacy. So useful, in fact, that I was prepared to pay for it! By chance, it happens to be the free version of ABBYY OCR software which came with my scanner and I use that for documents. I also find FreeClip (which I have recommended here before) a real timesaver. I have lots of little chunks of text that I use frequently (such as Census dates, templates for entering info from Certificates Registers, the numbers titles of oft-cited FHL films) stored in FreeClip and paste them into the relevant fields in Legacy as the need arises. -- Jenny M Benson 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
