Your computer already has a word recognition feature, (i.e.edit, find text in message) in most browsers or programs. You will have to figure out how to group all those messages on MS Word or Excel before using the find command! On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:34:52 -0500 "Max Yates" <[email protected]> writes: > Hello all, > > Can someone tell me if this is possible - > > To use a digital camera to photograph obits from old newspapers (1 - > 110 y/o), then bring them home to PC, and run it through some type > of word recognition program. > > Ultimately, I would like to record about 500 obits to genealogy > program and future personal website. > > Can someone make a suggestion on type of camera and recognition > program for this purpose? > > Thanks, > Max in FL. > > >

> Your computer already has a word recognition feature, (i.e.edit, find > text in message) in most browsers or programs. You will have to figure > out how to group all those messages on MS Word or Excel before using > the find command! In order for the Edit --> Find text in message, to work the message needs to be in a text format. A digital picture of a document cannot be searched in this way until it has been OCR'd and changed from an image into a text document. It may be possible to successfully OCR a digital photograph of a newspaper article as long as the camera used has a high enough resolution and a good OCR program is used. Even at that it will probably require some time and effort to do a reasonable job. It maight be better to simply use the image and supply a transcription John Zillwood [email protected] Communications Officer Abbotsford Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~bcags/

My suggestion would be to take your pictures and save them in a format such as tiff or jpeg. Then I would go to a word processing program or desktop publishing program such as Microsoft Publisher. From there you can import your file and work from that. I have never had much success with OCR. Evelyn At 05:02 AM 06/03/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Your computer already has a word recognition feature, (i.e.edit, find >text in message) in most browsers or programs. You will have to figure >out how to group all those messages on MS Word or Excel before using the >find command! >On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:34:52 -0500 "Max Yates" <[email protected]> writes: > > Hello all, > > > > Can someone tell me if this is possible - > > > > To use a digital camera to photograph obits from old newspapers (1 - > > 110 y/o), then bring them home to PC, and run it through some type > > of word recognition program. > > > > Ultimately, I would like to record about 500 obits to genealogy > > program and future personal website. > > > > Can someone make a suggestion on type of camera and recognition > > program for this purpose? > > > > Thanks, > > Max in FL. > > > > > >