Good tips.
One other point, if a Word document or web page is sent to OneNote by using
the "print to OneNote" option the URL is not documented by OneNote. I find
it necessary to cut and paste the URL onto the OneNote page. I usually paste
the URL at the start of the captured page image. This then allows me to
return to the source document.
Another option is to use Google. If Google is used to find a source
document that is, for example, a pdf file it automatically provides a html
version of the file. This is often a very good text version of the original
document.
Thanks again for your support and suggestions.
David
"Kathy Jacobs" wrote:
> 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
> >>
>