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 <mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com> wrote: For those who do not have a sub you can see this on http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past Mavis >________________________________ > From: "roy.stockdill@btinternet.com" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> >To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com; Brian Binns <bnbinns@gmail.com> >Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 14:31 >Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > >From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> > >> For those who have a subscription to Find my Past, a new blog has been >> posted on their site in the sub-section "Famous Family Trees", by >> "experienced family historian" Roy Stockdill (their description, not mine, >> which nevertheless I agree with). >> >> This one concerns Benedict Cumberpatch and is a most interesting read. I >> wonder if it was one which didn't make the "Who do you 5think you are" >> series?> > >Thanks very much, Brian. > >My discovery that the Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch had a >great-great-uncle who was charged with murder (and acquitted) at the age of 14 >in 1893 has made the national papers today (Daily Mail, Daily Express and Radio >Times included) but unfortunately they didn't credit me, only Findmypast. >Still, that's life I suppose! > > >-- >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 > > > > > >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 > > > 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
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" <djwilson22@yahoo.com> To: <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 <mayjaysomerset@btinternet.com> wrote: For those who do not have a sub you can see this on http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/439830/Real-murder-mystery-in-Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-s-past Mavis >________________________________ > From: "roy.stockdill@btinternet.com" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> >To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com; Brian Binns <bnbinns@gmail.com> >Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 14:31 >Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > > >From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> > >> For those who have a subscription to Find my Past, a new blog has been >> posted on their site in the sub-section "Famous Family Trees", by >> "experienced family historian" Roy Stockdill (their description, not >> mine, >> which nevertheless I agree with). >> >> This one concerns Benedict Cumberpatch and is a most interesting read. I >> wonder if it was one which didn't make the "Who do you 5think you are" >> series?> > >Thanks very much, Brian. > >My discovery that the Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch had a >great-great-uncle who was charged with murder (and acquitted) at the age of >14 >in 1893 has made the national papers today (Daily Mail, Daily Express and >Radio >Times included) but unfortunately they didn't credit me, only Findmypast. >Still, that's life I suppose! > > >-- >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 > > > > > >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 > > > 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 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
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
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
On 2013/10/31 12:24, david wilson wrote: > 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 . You need MS Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. The basic process is to copy the webpage in its entirety to a new document. If you're clever, you can select just the part of the webpage containing the text of the article, and copy that. Start a new, empty document and Paste what you've copied from the webpage. With LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer, this can be pasted in several ways, but the best choice is probably as HTML. Then, what you get looks more or less like what appears on the web. From there, it all depends on what you want to do with the document. If you want more details, contact me off-list. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg
There is a free pdf reader with built in OCR capability called PDF-XChange viewer. Results obviously depend on the quality of the original but you may find it worth a try. Google should find it for you - I don't have the URL to hand. Pauline On 31/10/2013 10:24, david wilson wrote: > 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 ! . >