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| 327028 | 2005-02-21 12:03:00 | Can you use HTML and link to the image which would open in your browser | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 327029 | 2005-02-21 16:46:00 | What makes it worse is the document isn't an original - just a photo. I think he's just going to have to retype them, or perhaps post the images to a website and just type in a url. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 327030 | 2005-02-21 17:02:00 | Curly. I can tell you from experience that what you are trying to do just can't be done satisfactoraly.If you are doing a "book" my solution was to scan the certs. and then print them as jpg's. Then print out the rest and add the pictures in in the back of the book. A commercial printer can then print the whole thing for you. What genealogy program are you useing? If you get a good (expensive) one ,you can drag pictures into it. If you are using PAF, forget your pictures. Regardless of how you do it, it will be necessary to get the final draft printed commercialy. Forget the free OCR software available on the web. None of it is any better than that which comes with your scanner. My big problem is trying to include old typewritten pages. The home scanner is just not good enough to handle them. Again the only solution is the commercial printer with a drum scanner. At the moment I have a 5000 name file plus about 150 pages of photo's etc.all set up ready for printing. I'm waiting to win Lotto so I can afford to get it all printed. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 327031 | 2005-02-21 18:33:00 | [QUOTE=Murray P] You get things like a) converted to; A| and, all looking like; a]l every now and again but not so much to make it a complete waste of time.QUOTE] For repetitive errors you can use Find>Replace All to whizz through the document fixing up those oddities. A *.txt only program would be a rarity in today's age. Is it very old? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 327032 | 2005-02-22 01:44:00 | Hi Curly. Whci genealogy programme? I have tinkered with several and most have some ability to store and associate graphics with individuals. :cool: Brothers Keeper 6.1 for Windows, but the notes storage section clearly says txt files only. Thanks |
curly (6655) | ||
| 327033 | 2005-02-22 02:07:00 | Suggest trying to use a OCR on a 1800's birth certificate will be very frustrating with the wide variation of writing. Suggest update your genealogy programme to suite XP and do a fossick in the manual for adding pictures, usually it is either drag an image from Windows Explorer or open the jpg in another program, use Edit | Copy, open the genealogy programme and use Edit | Paste. | FrankS (257) | ||
| 327034 | 2005-02-22 02:08:00 | Brothers Keeper 6.1 for Windows, but the notes storage section clearly says txt files only. Thanks Just checked the BK 6.1 website and it can definitely handle JPG files, but where it stores them is another matter. You would have to take a closer look at the file saving location options. "If you have .TIF format picture files in 5.2 you may download the BK5 UTILITY program to convert .tif to jpg files. BK6 can read certain .TIF files, but not those that use LZW compression. If BK6 says it can not display your picture files, then use the utility program to convert to jpg and then do the conversion to BK6 again." Since you wanted the image for the text content, image storage may be irrelevant to you at this stage, but until you can scan those documents and convert to text perhaps you may need to maintain a folder of certificate images. I appreciate that you were hoping to convert the jpg images to a readable text file, but as others have said, that can't be done. Optical conversion or retyping are the only ways to achieve what you want. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 327035 | 2005-02-22 02:29:00 | Just beat me to it, Billy T. For info www.bkwin.org |
FrankS (257) | ||
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