"John Bennett" <johna.bennett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
message
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> 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.
>
I use Naturally Speaking a lot, at home and work. It's frustrating for the
first day or two as you have to train it for place names. Also watch out
for
words that sound alike (starry nights and knights in ****ning armour, for
example).
I would hate to have to do without it, it's a better, faster typist than I
am, despite its limitations.
Lesley Robertson
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