On Fri, 16 May 2008 Wes Groleau <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>John Bennett wrote:
>> I am shortly hoping to embark on the task of transcribing a large 1872
>> diary, written in neat copperplate style handwriting. Is there any
>> software out there that will read (at least maybe some of) it by
>> scanning/OCR?
>
>If it's very neat, OCR might work, but there will still be a lot of
>errors to correct. I think you'd get fewer errors and be almost as
>fast by getting the cheapest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking
>and just reading the thing into the microphone.
>
I hadn't though of that, thanks.
Cheers John
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John Bennett
Email john(dot)bennett(at)smartemail(dot)co(dot)uk


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