Anne Brick wrote: > Hi > I have a pile of letters written during WW1 by my father and his brother > and would like to be able to type them up for family distribution > I am > a very slow typist and none of my children can read the older hand > writing. Does any one know of a share ware program that I would be able > to try? > > Anne > If a person cannot read it then a computer program is unlikely to be able to do it. Maybe you could teach your children to type. Dale -- _ _ Dale DePriest /`) _ // http://users.cwnet.com/dalede o/_/ (_(_X_(` For GPS and GPS/PDAs

"Dale DePriest" <Dale@gpsinformation.het> wrote in message news:13qk8ptb3v7j40b@corp.supernews.com... > > > Anne Brick wrote: >> Hi >> I have a pile of letters written during WW1 by my father and his brother >> and would like to be able to type them up for family distribution > I am >> a very slow typist and none of my children can read the older hand >> writing. Does any one know of a share ware program that I would be able >> to try? >> >> Anne >> > > If a person cannot read it then a computer program is unlikely to be able > to do it. Maybe you could teach your children to type. > The OP was aksing about speech recognition, NOT character recognition (see the subject line). With speech recognition, the user reads the text aloud, into a microphone, and the softweare does the typing. This message is coming to you via such a system. I find it extremely useful, but it's not a shareware programme. Lesley Robertson