COMPUTER HELP

I am an author and need to retype entire books I have written that are not on my PC.
Has anyone tried a voice recognition device that you read text into and it types it on the computer?

I've read that the best-selling one is Dragon Naturally-Speaking Home 1.3.
Anyone tried that or have any other suggestions?

Thanks.

Walt Oleksy
waltmax69@gmail.com

 

How about scanning them and converting the scanned images to Word?

 

Thanks, dear Ellen. I tried that. I scanned a page of my book and it came up but very large. When I tried to resize
it to 8x10 it looked okay but would not copy so I could save it as a Word document. It also did not look as sharp as I wanted,
in Times New Roman 12 point.

Can you email me at waltmax69@gmail.com ? Thanks.

 

Thanks, Forest. I've read that the best voice recognition system is the one you mention. I could get it for about $50.
Some say it's easy to set up and work, but others say it's hard to.
I don't know anyone to help me set it up.

I would also prefer to scan the book and copy and paste it into a Word document so I will look into OCR.
OCR could be faster and more accurate than talking the text into the voice recognition system.

 

The text I want to copy has no picture behind it, thank heaven. Just regular book text.

I'm sure you're right that I'd need someone to show me how to use it.

A friend nearby does know a lot about computer and may help me.
Or I may ask a neighbor's teenage son. Teens know so much about computers these days.

Thanks. I think OCR is the answer for me. I hate to think of retyping 300 pages of a book of mine
I wrote 15 years ago and didn't put it on the computer.

 

I just talked to the neighbor a few blocks away and he said he is pretty sure his teenage son can help me on the OCR.
He'll call me Tuesday after work. He said I may not even need to buy an OCR program, that Micosoft Word can do it.
I already have and use a scanner. I know how to scan documents and copy them into a Word document. This book copying
just doesn't work, but I''ll play with it a while.

 

Let us know if it works out. If it doesn't, I am sure we'll find a way to help you with this.
gr. Giga

 

Thanks Giga.

I'm going to try a free program from www.ocrtoword.com which looks easy. Hope it is.
I'll let you know if it works for me.

 

Often OCR software is delivered together with the scanner or in my case an all-in-one printer/scanner/copier. Never tried it, but maybe you need to look on the CD that was delivered with your scanner...

 

I will if I can find the scanner stuff. Thanks.