[iBook] Off topic? Audio and OCR help wanted

[Pat]

I use a recipe program that is really easy to use.  It's called 
Mastercook and I've put together a whole cookbook for a non-profit 
using it.

Pat

On Nov 12, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Brian Olesky wrote:

>
>> So the question is, to you all with much more experience than myself,
>> what do you think? Is there a way he can do his recipe project on a
>> Mac? If so, what program/programs would he use? I assumed it would be
>> Adobe Acrobat Pro which has a built in OCR component.
>
> You can simply scan the recipes, and then use the Mac's built in .pdf
> reader, Preview, to select and extract whatever text you want from the 
> scans
> and import it into any other program you like, such as Word, and then 
> work
> with it any way you choose. No extra tools, or expense required. It 
> works
> extremely well (at least the way I use it).
>
> Brian