It depends what you want to achieve Dai. Adding notes is not quite the same as adding mark-up, or 'inline meta-data'. The latter can indicate the nature/context/alternatives for something, and provide a link from there to data elsewhere (e.g. a Web page or database) Tony Proctor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dai & Angela Bevan" <daibevan@clara.co.uk> To: <nottsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > Tony, David, > The easiest way I have found to highlight the article and add notes is > to > save the pdf of the page, then use the 'Sticky Note' capability of > Acrobat > Reader to make notes. It also serves to highlight the point of interest > on > the page when you return to it at a later stage. > Dai > > On 31/10/2013 10:31, Tony Proctor wrote: > > As far as I know David, that's the only way. It's a real shame since I > like > to add mark-up into such articles to highlight people, places, dates, > etc., > and so make them searchable and link them to parts of my tree. > > I could be wrong but I don't know of any newspaper archive that will allow > you to copy a plain-text version of an article. If there's a reason for > this > then it escapes me. > > Tony Proctor > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "david wilson" [1]<djwilson22@yahoo.com> > To: [2]<nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:24 AM > Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > > 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 ! . > > > > > On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:37 PM, MAVIS JOHNSON > [3]<mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com> wrote: > > For those who do not have a sub you can see this on > > [4]http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock > -star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past > > Mavis > > References > > 1. mailto:djwilson22@yahoo.com > 2. mailto:nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com > 3. mailto:mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com > 4. > http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message