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I really love Amazon and the Kindle but is THIS the future? I too had to type things from my kindle to send quotes to friends. Though, never that long. Thanks

by FrojoS 15y ago

I really love Amazon and the Kindle but is THIS the future? I too had to type things from my kindle to send quotes to friends. Though, never that long. Thanks for the effort!

boredguy8 15y ago
Print screen, upload to Google Docs, convert to text. Works wonders for long passages.
- FrojoS 15y ago
  I was just thinking "OCR" when writing that post, too. But yours is a straightforward solution, that I have not heard of before. To make sure that YC doesn't get into stupid IP trouble, I took a random snapshot of a public book that I was reading on my PC kindle. Here is the result from google docs: ------- [...] We neighbors are out of bed." This struck the eeuld net then empley him; but I foolishly rest, and we s00n after had offers from one let him kngw as 3 Secret that I 50011 Of them t0 Suppl)’ U5 with 5tE1ti0I1e1"Y; but intended to begin a newspaper, and might as yet we did not chuse to engage in shop then have work him_ My hopes of bL1SiI16SS. success, as I told him, were founded on mention this industry the more this, that the then only newspaper, printed particularly and the more freely, tho’ it by Bradford, was a paltry seems to be talking in my own praise, that wretehedly manag'd, no way entertaining, those of my posterity, who shall read it, and yet was proﬁtable to him; ---- So obviously there are some bugs. The whole thing took me like 1-3 min for the first time. Google docs is kind of slow on my system. No I would still have to correct all the mistakes. No idea of the GP's approach is more work. Still a nice idea.
  - boredguy8 15y ago
    Not sure which text size you're using when you take your screenshot, but it works 100% for me using Jane Austin's Pride & Prejudice. The only errors are where I clip the descenders and is much faster than typing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RqUDWTGgpZQueJW19QhLxL4beR1kUHpPKQhhYIJV2k/edit?hl=en_US https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RqUDWTGgpZQueJW19QhLxL4...

by FrojoS 15y ago

I really love Amazon and the Kindle but is THIS the future? I too had to type things from my kindle to send quotes to friends. Though, never that long. Thanks for the effort!

boredguy8 15y ago

Print screen, upload to Google Docs, convert to text. Works wonders for long passages.

FrojoS 15y ago
I was just thinking "OCR" when writing that post, too. But yours is a straightforward solution, that I have not heard of before. To make sure that YC doesn't get into stupid IP trouble, I took a random snapshot of a public book that I was reading on my PC kindle. Here is the result from google docs: ------- [...] We neighbors are out of bed." This struck the eeuld net then empley him; but I foolishly rest, and we s00n after had offers from one let him kngw as 3 Secret that I 50011 Of them t0 Suppl)’ U5 with 5tE1ti0I1e1"Y; but intended to begin a newspaper, and might as yet we did not chuse to engage in shop then have work him_ My hopes of bL1SiI16SS. success, as I told him, were founded on mention this industry the more this, that the then only newspaper, printed particularly and the more freely, tho’ it by Bradford, was a paltry seems to be talking in my own praise, that wretehedly manag'd, no way entertaining, those of my posterity, who shall read it, and yet was proﬁtable to him; ---- So obviously there are some bugs. The whole thing took me like 1-3 min for the first time. Google docs is kind of slow on my system. No I would still have to correct all the mistakes. No idea of the GP's approach is more work. Still a nice idea.
- boredguy8 15y ago
  Not sure which text size you're using when you take your screenshot, but it works 100% for me using Jane Austin's Pride & Prejudice. The only errors are where I clip the descenders and is much faster than typing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RqUDWTGgpZQueJW19QhLxL4beR1kUHpPKQhhYIJV2k/edit?hl=en_US https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RqUDWTGgpZQueJW19QhLxL4...