Puzzle - to ask @mouser for help - re CHS:
This is the Google Earth Pro window displaying installed and version information: I used OneNote image clipping to capture it into OneNote.
Screen clipping taken: 2017-09-16 15:10
I wanted to put this into a table. I didn't have to do this, as OneNote indexes and searches text in images.
I used the usual OneNote OCR feature to extract the text from the above image. The text was extracted in a linear fashion to Clipboard/CHS, rather jumbled-up. So, I pasted that into OneNote. This is the result (linear extraction of text, with OCR errors):
About Google Earth
Google Earth Pro
7.3. O 3832 (32-bit)
8/18/2017
Microsoft Windows (6.2.9200 O)
NVIDIA corporation (00021.00020.00016.04542)
16384K 16384
Google Earth Pro
Build Date
Build Time
Renderer
Opera ting System
Video Driver
Max Texture Size
available memory 4095 MB
kh.google.com
I then laboriously (manually) put that text into a table. The OCR errors were corrected as I went. This is the table produced:
About Google Earth
Google Earth Pro
7.3.0.3832 (32-bit)
Build Date
8/18/2017
Build Time
9:42:13 am
Renderer
OpenGL
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (6.2.9200 0
Video Driver
NVIDIA corporation (00021.00020.00016.04542)
Max Texture Size
16384x16384
available video memory
4095 MB
Server
kh.google.com
Out of interest, I then:
(a) used ASR (ABBYY Screenshot Reader) to OCR the text directly from the Google Earth Pro window, to the Clipboard:
This resulted in a similar jumbled-up linear list of the words/characters read, but without any OCR errors. (Previous comparative tests with ABBY found it was very accurate - less error-prone - compared to OneNote.)
(b) used ASR to OCR the text directly from the Google Earth Pro window, to the Clipboard, but in table (columnar) format:
This is the text that went into CHS at (b): (Table --> Clipboard)
Screen clipping taken: 2017-09-16 15:47
If I then then paste (format paste) the Clipboard contents into OneNote, this is the result (non-linear text, arranged in table form):
Google Earth Pro 7.3.0.3832 (32-bit)
Build Date 8/18/2017
Build Time 9:42:13 am
Renderer OpenGL
Operating System Microsoft Windows (6.2.9200.0)
Video Driver NVIDIA Corporation (00021.00020.00016.04542)
Max Texture Size 16384x16384
available video memory 4095 MB
Server kh.google.com
But if I instead Paste (formatted paste from Clipboard) into the same clip in CHS, below the existing text, this is what the CHS clip contents then look like: (notice the "smart" translation of the server URL)
(I know this formatting feature is regarded as something of a "bug" in CHS.)
This formatted table can be repeatedly pasted into CHS (i.e., it is in the Clipboard), but not into OneNote - where it pastes as just text. The table contains text that can be edited and new lines added in CHS and without destroying the format. However, the table grid lines seem to be fixed in position - i.e. the table grid lines are not draggable.
For example:
However, because CHS is text-based, the formatted table does not persist (it is transient), and if the CHS focus is moved to another clip and then back to this one, this is the result (see red box highlighting the text) - the residual text from the little formatted table is all there (including the smart URL), but the table grid formatting is lost:
Question to @mouser: Is there any way of doing this? (following):
It would be an extremely useful time-saver (saving the tedium of reconstructing the table in OneNote) if I could copy the little formatted text table from the Clipboard, directly into OneNote (or another application) and have draggable grid lines, but this seems impossible. The little table only seems to exist briefly as a visible, formatted table in the CHS clip - as long as focus remains on that clip in CHS - i.e., it seems to be transient (not persistent) in CHS. Which is what one would expect.
However, whilst it is still there in CHS, I would like to be able to somehow Paste that little formatted table into a document.
If this is not possible, then I have figured out a wrorkaround, which saves a bit of time but is a bit kludgy in that it uses Excel as an intermediary:
§ Use the method of either the Table to Clipboard (Method #1) or Table to Microsoft Excel (Method #2) options in the ASR:
§ If the former (Method #1), then open Excel, open a new Excel spreadsheet, and Paste the Clipboard contents into the spreadsheet. Copy --> Paste the table from the spreadsheet into OneNote (or other document). Example below:
Google Earth Pro
7.3.0.3832 (32-bit)
Build Date
8/18/2017
Build Time
9:42:13 AM
Renderer
OpenGL
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (6.2.9200.0)
Video Driver
NVIDIA Corporation (00021.00020.00016.04542)
Max Texture Size
16384x16384
available video memory 4095 MB
Server
kh.google.com
§ If the latter (Method #2), then the ASR will automatically open Excel in a new spreadsheet and Paste in the Clipboard contents. Copy --> Paste the table from the spreadsheet into OneNote (or other document). Example below:
Google Earth Pro
7.3.0.3832 (32-bit)
Build Date
8/18/2017
Build Time
9:42:13 am
Renderer
OpenGL
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (6.2.9200.0)
Video Driver
NVIDIA Corporation (00021.00020.00016.04542)
Max Texture Size
16384x16384
available video memory 4095 MB
Server
kh.google.com
§ Of the two methods, Method #2 seems to be the more efficient.
§ In the output of both methods, the table grid lines are draggable.
§ The differences between the output from the two methods are minor, and, interestingly, in neither one does the "Smart" URL occur - which seems to me to be a loss, as it would be clickable - i.e.,
http://kh.google.com - and this is arguably what one would want (especially considering the Wiki-like hyperlinking facility already built-in to OneNote Notebooks, by design).
