Great idea!!! Also I am wondering if Google'll do it. The local genealogy society may also be able to assist my friend and her friends. I suggested contacting them. Linda Merle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Marwood" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:54:43 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [S-I] OCRing Journals Yes, try to find a university that is digitizing journals and make arrangements with them. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 7:47 PM Subject: [S-I] OCRing Journals > Hi folks, > > Now that I woke you (and myself) up. The Upper Ohio Valley Presbyterian > Historical Society (previously mentioned) wants to put its journals on > line in PDF form with a search engine. This means scanning them and OCRing > them so they are searchable. My question is has anyone been involved in a > society that has done this? Looking for suggestions regarding software to > use, etc. If anyone has can you contact me off line??? I guess this is on > topic since the society is clearly Scotch Irish but it is of limited > interest. > > Thanks in advance..... > > Linda Merle > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message