Re: Ways to scan and OCR notes taken in books (digital dump of "highlights") ?

Thanks for the responses.  To clarify what I was asking about, I
wondering about software / products / strategies that would do OCR
_just_ on parts of a test that one is interested in, not the whole
page.  Anyone know have any ideas there?

A good ole pen highlighter would be the ultimate analogy -- _just_ the
parts that one highlights gets dumped into a digital file.

The pen scanner is the most obvious way to do this that I know of, but
the Quicklink is _way_ too slow (I upgraded the pen's OS to current
(2.43, I believe) and still too slow).  Anyone have good luck with
other (hopefully not terribly expensive) scanner pens?

What about OCR software that has the functionality to just do OCR on
text that has been highlighted by an old fashioned highlighter pen? 
Anyone know of anything like that?

So, one would use a regular highlighter to highlight stuff from their
book (nice and fast and portable and cheap) and then use a flatbed
scanner to scan pages of the text that one did highlights on, and then
the software extracts only the highlighted text.  Not ideal, but sure
a hell of a lot better than having one's notes essentially hiding in
the closed pages of various books....


Thanks again 




Anders Thulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> CSM1 wrote:
> 
> > when you get the hang of it, it is pretty easy. The big bad, is OCR is only
> > about 99% accurate and only works on typed or printed text.
> 
>    Jim Weiler of Xoogi just announced what I take to be 99.999%
> OCR work (perhaps I lost a '9') on the Bookpeople list -- he wrote:
> 
>    "Yesterday I proofread the first book I've done with only two mistakes in 
> 200-plus pages."
> 
>    FineReader (unknown version) on 400dpi greyscale scans of a very well
> printed and preserved book, it seems. No details about how long much work
> it took in scanning, so it's difficult to say if it was done economically
> or at very great expense in terms of time.