Oh, you're talking about ocr. That we have. Frank uses it all the time when
he's scanning recipes.

Diana

"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
news
A cut down version of Omnipage comes with many scanners (including my Canon
scanner). Your own scanner package may have that or another ocr package
that
would work as well. Usually the cut down versions only lack all the fancy
bells
& whistles over & above basic ocr.

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:55:26 -0800, "K Barrett"
wrote:

Yikes, Omnipage costs $499! gulp!

K
"K Barrett" wrote in message
m...
I just posted this on RGO because I forgot which ng the thrread started
on... but anyway, the mystery newsgroup came up withthis one:
http://www.livingcookbook.com/

OmniPage, eh? Can even an idiot learn to use it? Is there freeware?

K Barrett

"D. Wain Garrison" wrote in message
. ..
It can be done without typing. I use ScanSoft OmniPage to make a doc
and
out it into Master Cook in which I can search on any ingredient.
--
D. Wain Garrison
If you can read you can learn anything
For there are those who can write who are smarter than you are
However not everyone who can write is smarter than you are.
"K Barrett" wrote in message
...
Yes if you find on let me know, too. Joe keeps thinking he'll find a
program that'll pick up 'all the chicken' recipes or 'all the recipes
that contain peanuts' in case he can't remember the recipe's name but
knows it had certain ingredients... but AFAIK that'd need each recipe
to
be typed into a form and not just scanned, so there's noway in hades
I'm
going to do that. So I stay with my printouts and recipe piles.

K

"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
...
Boy, do we have recipes! We both cook, so it can be dangerous in our
kitchen. We don't have a relational data base for them. Frank keeps
them sorted into categories on CDRWs and uses a spread sheet so we
know
where they are. The spread sheet helps because we also have a ton of
Cuisine and Bon Appetit issues that have things we want but haven't
yet
scanned. If you find something I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Diana

"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
...
Sorry about the o/t posting. It's much more comforting ro get
recommendations
from people you know - friends, even if you've never met them.

Ann's recipe database dates from the days of Win 3.11, & it's a work
of art to
keep it running under XP. Can anyone suggest a good current
package?
We're
happy with freeware, shareware or commercial. The only problem with
commercial
is whether one that's available to you is readily available over
here.

TIA, & apologies again for going o/t.
Dave Gillingham
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