Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing software

2006-11-15 Thread Alastair Lack
Just a thought. There are a number of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) programs out there with varying degrees of accuracy. (Omnipage 15 Pro - Ebay £5 at present). With newspapers, books etc they work very well. No use for hand written documents though. For those one can use a dictation

Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing software

2006-11-14 Thread Dee
Is this what you meant? It was from October 19. I have cut and pasted it here. Dee Pat:I sort of do the same, but for US Censuses I pull upthe page I want in Ancestry at the library, and thencopy and paste the series, reel, and image numbersfrom the View Record link to a Word file, and then go

Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing software

2006-11-14 Thread Mary Young
Hi, Dee Thanks, but that wasn't it. The reference was for a little program which split into two screens, one for the image and the other for typing in the transcript. Easier than loading an image viewer and a wordprocessor, and reducing each to half-screen size. Cheers, Mary Young On 11/14/06,

Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing software

2006-11-14 Thread Bob Janice
Mary, Try this link http://home.wanadoo.nl/jgboerema/en/Freeware.htm Bob Mary Young wrote: Hi, Dee Thanks, but that wasn't it. The reference was for a little program which split into two screens, one for the image and the other for typing in the transcript. Easier than loading an image

Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing software

2006-11-14 Thread Randolph Clark
Here's the link:http://home.wanadoo.nl/jgboerema/en/Freeware.htmOn 11/14/06, Mary Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi, Dee Thanks, but that wasn't it. The reference was for a little programwhich split into two screens, one for the image and the other fortyping in the transcript. Easier than loading

Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing software

2006-11-14 Thread Mary Young
Thanks to everyone for the link. and my apologies for off-topic. Regards, Mary Young 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:

RE: [LegacyUG] Transcribing software

2006-11-14 Thread Carol
Mary, Is this it? http://home.wanadoo.nl/jgboerema/en/Freeware.htm The program called Transcript? Carol 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: