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Vicki,
If you would like to share the information from the Bible, you can either post it here
(there's even a Bible category) or you can send it to me and I'll create a page
for it on the Wells County INGenWeb Project site. Either way is fine. Anything else you
have to share can be dealt with in the same way.
Just for future reference, if you have a digital camera and tripod, with the right
lighting you can take a pretty good photo of pages in a book. I set up a tripod on my
dining room table and took photos of the 1903 Wells County biography book from above. The
binding on it is falling apart and, like you, I was afraid to put it upside down on a
scanner (especially considering the sheer size of it and the fact that I would have had to
scan EVERY page). What I did next wouldn't work on the Bible, but I found a freeware
program (TopOCR) that converts the photos to text. I was really pleased with how well it
did without my having to scan in 600 dpi b/w pictures. Maybe this information will be of
some use to you.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Cathy Burnsed
cathy(a)gardenour.com
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