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OneNote 12 (coming in 2006) beta1 is out now...

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brotherS:
OCR would be awesome... I would love to be able to take a picture of an interesting paragraph from a book or magazine and archive it.
-kfitting (November 21, 2005, 07:47 AM)
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Then buy a scanner and just do that now already :) (saving it as pdf with new scanner soft will add searchable text to the document)

My biggest problem with OneNote is that it seems rather obtuse.  Granted, I only spent about 10 minutes with it, but it still seemed overly complex.  My second biggest problem is that it's Microsoft... not that I hate Microsoft, but if it's Microsoft it means proprietary file format and that just wont fly for storing data long term.  I NEEDto be able to get my data out easily or import it into another app with as little work as possible.

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Yeah, that's the Microsoft problem - overly complex and you never know how to work with new file formats...

kfitting:
I have a scanner.  And it's hard to fit that big fat book on there while its scanning.  Then you gotta open the cumbersome OCR software... then proofread it.  It would be much easier to take a pic, upload it and have your note taking program do it for you!!

Kevin

Edvard:
My second biggest problem is that it's Microsoft... not that I hate Microsoft, but if it's Microsoft it means proprietary file format and that just wont fly for storing data long term
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http://www.simpleocr.com/ + Sign the petition.

kfitting:
Yeah I tried SimpleOCR and never had a good success rate with it.  Especially with pics from a digi cam.

Kevin

Carol Haynes:
Trouble is there isn't any really good OCR software out there. I used OmniPage for a while - but it never lives up to expectation.

The big problem is that even a small number of errors (say 2% which is better than most acheive) still leaves a lot of close editing work to do.

Speach input is even worse.

Handwriting recognition seems to be getting better but OneNote 2003 only seems to accept handwritten data from a Windows Tablet computer. My copy won't read/interpret stuff I write on a Wacom Tablet. It is an annoyance since the rest of Office XP will do it - why can't they simply import the code ???

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