----- Original Message ----- From: <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com>; "david wilson" <djwilson22@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > From: david wilson <djwilson22@yahoo.com> > >> Speaking of Find My Past . >> >> Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an >> editable >> text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . >> >> I know I could print off , on to an A4 sheet and then via the scanner run >> it >> through an OCR programme but is there on on-screen way ? . >> >> Have even tried without success of taking a picture of a page that is on >> my >> laptop screen with my tablets OCR app . Just got goobledy-gook ! .> > > David > > Have you tried simply selecting (highlighting) all the text, then copying > and > pasting it into MSWord or some similar programme? > > I've just tried it with my blog on Benedict Cumberbatch and it worked for > me. > You may have to edit out a few extraneous references which have been > captured > by the selecting, but it's not a problem. > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > I understood that David was wanting to convert the article images into editable text Roy. Copy-and-pasting text from a blog or HTML page is not a problem but converting a jpeg (or similar) image to text requires OCR. Microsoft OneNote has a built-in OCR feature which might be useful. Just paste the image into it and there's an option to generate text. I can find it if anyone's interested. Tony Proctor