Glad to be of help.
One more idea: If you don't want the full page, cheat :)
Use either SnagIt or OneNote's Screen Clip feature to grab just the part you
want. Paste that in, then do the copy text. I have also found that the
larger the text size, the better the recognition works. So, when possible,
bump the viewing size up before you take the clip. (As an example: I use
IE7. If I take the shot of a page being viewed at 150%, I get better
recognition than when I take it from a page being viewed at 100%.)
--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at
www.onppt.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
"David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8829377B-50E1-4E52-B7B7-DAE4DD18FB31@microsoft.com...
> Kathy, thanks for your quick response. First a couple of answers.
> Let's star with are they text or printouts? And are you running OneNote
> 2003
> or 2007?
>
> This text is the result of sending your response to OneNote 2007, then
> copying and pasting text in the manner you described. The result is good.
> Next I "printed" a Word 2007 document to OneNote 2007, followed the same
> procedure, and again got a good copy.
>
> Next I followed the same procedure on a document downloaded from a web
> site.
> This was again "printed" to OneNote. The result is shown below
>
> AuthoT veTsion of papeT published as:
> Dawes, Les and Goonetilleke, Ashantha (2003)
> An investigation into the Tole of site and so il chaTacteTistics in
> on-site
> sewage tTeatment. Environmental Geology 44(4): pp. 46?-4??
> copyTight 2003 spTingeT-veTlag
> AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ROLE OF SITE AND SOIL CHARACTERISTICS IN ON-SITE
> SEWAGE TREATMENT
> L ES D AWES AND A SHANTHA G OONETlLLEKE
> school of civil EngineeTing,
> Queensland univeTsity of Technology
>
> Two problems exist with this technique. The first is having the whole
> page
> tranfered to text, it is not possible to cut a portion of the text from a
> page. OneNote allows one page or every page in the document.
>
> The second is probably related to the OneNote embedded OCR machine, and
> its
> quality of recognition. The first part of the text was small format, and
> recognition is not very good. The title text on the page was much larger,
> and the OCR recognition is better; but not perfect.
>
> I took the image of the OneNote page and used a well known OCR software
> package. This was better, but again not perfect. However, it has a
> "training" mode which will increase recognition accuracy in multipage
> documents.
>
> For a short text clip I will use OneNote and manually correct. In
> addition,
> I will include the URL of the source document (either web or LAN) so that
> I
> always have the option of "cut and paste" from the site or document.
>
> Once again, thanks for your response
>
> David
>
>
>
> "Kathy Jacobs" wrote:
>
>> Let's star with are they text or printouts? And are you running OneNote
>> 2003
>> or 2007? It sounds like they are printouts or scans of the articles, not
>> the
>> text of the articles. In this case, if you are using OneNote 2007, right
>> click the article and select "Copy text". Then paste the text elsewhere
>> on
>> the page. That should get you the text of the article.
>>
>> Before you use the text anywhere, make sure you are following standard
>> quotation and attribution rules. Get permission to use the pieces too as
>> needed.
>>
>> --
>> Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
>> Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
>> Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com
>>
>> I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
>> if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we
>> lived
>>
>> "David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F10E4AE1-3956-4637-AC20-1CEDB49C99DD@microsoft.com...
>> >I have many articles for a research project. They are mainly from the
>> >web.
>> > I want to collect short clips from several and copy the text. OneNote
>> > curser
>> > just draws a blue outline around the text, but no way to clip text.
>> > Can
>> > anyone help
>>