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OCR Tips, Microsoft Office Document Imaging for TIFFs

27 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Digital Books, Scanning

After my "Letter to a Newbie" post, I was e-mailed by Kurt Geisel, Director of Tablet PC Development at Microsoft, with a couple suggestions about TIFF files. Something I really enjoyed hearing about was about using a combination of Microsoft Office Document Imaging and Journal to OCR and open scanned TIFF files.

Pretty much, if you have Microsoft Office, under Tools you have the document imaging program. This will open TIFF and MDI files, then you just need to simply go Tools>>Recognize Text using OCR… and suddenly you have a multi-layer TIFF file which you only see the image, but it has the text behind it, so it’s searchable.

Interview/Biopic of Activeword’s Buzz

27 April 2005 Posted By: Trevor
Posted in: Other, Software Info

Both Tracy and I use Activewords to make our lives easier. I owe my introduction to Activewords really to its creator Buzz Bruggeman. He’s an amazing, dynamic individual. He also knows just about everyone.

I met Buzz for the first time in Las Vegas. He called me during my flight so I had a voicemail pop up when I got into the airport. He had read my MindManager overview and has some ideas for how to incorporate AW into MindManager. He was also in Vegas for CES. We met up at the Tablet Meetup in Vegas.

Opening doors to Educators and Non-College Users

25 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related

We’ve been pretty university/college focused, mostly because both Trev and I are in college, but we’re going to try to branch out a little. We realize high school students have different needs and circumstances, and that educators have close ties with what students are doing (or at least, they should). With the opening of our new discussion forum, we can now cater to the non-college student crowd more easily through topics and member interaction.

So if you fall into one of the two categories mentioned above (or if you’ve yet to check out our forums which we’re so very proud of :-D), please give us a visit in our new Educators forum and our new Pre-Higher Education forum!

Chris Pratley: Getting organized using OneNote note flags

24 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Note-Taking, OneNote, Organization

Another great post from Chris Pratley’s blog. With all the forum hoopla, I haven’t had a chance to mention this before now, but if you currently don’t use flags, and you use OneNote, please read this post. It’s informative for those not yet in flagging bliss, or actually anyone.

"I’ve written recently about some of the more exotic capabilities of OneNote, but I thought I would spend a little time on Note Flags. Note Flags are one of the fundamental features of OneNote that makes the power of having an electronic notebook apparent. Oddly, although we consider Note Flags one of the fundamental features of OneNote that everyone should be using, I still meet people who either never use them, or have not discovered the awesome power of Note Flags Summary. And they are still using OneNote - go figure

Trillian: Where’s the Ink?

24 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Other, Software Info

This is me, using my little power as a blogger to try to get something I want done.

Let’s get some tablet support in Trillian, people.

Trillian is a program that lets you handle all of your different chat clients all in one, along with several plug-ins and skins for customization. Awesome. I don’t need to have AIM and MSN open with their ads galore I have to fight around. Did I mention Trillian has no ads, pop-ups, or spyware? Really, you should check it out.

The Forum is Up!!!

22 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related

Woohoo! We have a forum now!

Big thanks to LiquidBlaze for putting up with me while building our ultra cool forum, and also for everyone else for being patient!

Here’s the deal: Right now we’re waiting for the forum.studenttabletpc.com sub-domain to work, but since it’s ready for business, right now you can easily get to it through http://www.studenttabletpc.com/forum. In maybe 20-30 hours we’ll switch to the sub-domain if it’s working by then. Mean time, have some fun!

By the way, custom avatars  (must be limit 60×60 pixels) and image signatures are allowed so upload your own ink signature if ya want!

Letter to a Newbie

19 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tips / Tricks

While we’re catering to new tablet users, I thought I’d share an e-mail from a reader. Along with answering some questions for newbies, I think many of you could relate to this at some time or another, including myself just last summer ^_^.

Alex:

You know don’t me but I was wondering whether you can give me a few pointers or maybe a few SPECIFIC website for my following questions.

I recently purchased a Fujitsu Stylistic 5022 and a Opticbook 3600 scanner. While my tablet is a SUPERB machine, but I am not using it to its full capacity. As matter of fact, I am not even using 10% of what this machine can do for me.

My first problem is trying to scan textbook into Tiff file and then convert Tiff files into a PDF file. I have no problem scanning into Tiff files, but I don’t know how in the world to convert them into a PDF File. I saw from your website that there are people suggest to turn Tiff files into PDF files chapter by chapter and then OCR each chapter. That’s what I want to do as well but I have no idea how to. People say use Acrobat but when i try opening Tiff files in acrobat, it doesn’t allow me. So this is my question, will you be able to help me out or maybe give me a specific place where can i solve this even for a dummy like me? I am also quite sure I will have problem doing OCR as well.
So please help me on that as well.

I know you probably have lots of emails to reply and lots of other things that you need to attend to but I would really appreciate it if you can just point me into the right direction.

Another thing is that a lot of the websites i go do to get my tablet pc info are all quite hard for me to understand. I mean is there a blog or a website for very beginners?

Newbie Help Center

19 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related, Tips / Tricks

First, thanks again for your patience with the domain switch.

Second, I’d like everyone to look to their right, just below the "About Us" button, and notice a little thing called the Newbie Help Center. This page was created as a place for the clueless and the new-to-tablets crowd to start their tablet journey. I tried to include answers to some of the main questions I had as a newbie, along with a lot of the resources I used to guide me, plus some extras I found along the way.

Domain Temporarily Down

18 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related

Well, we’re setting up for the forum and doing a domain transfer while we’re at it, so for the next 48 hours or so the studenttabletpc.com link will be down. You can still reach us at the studenttabletpc.blogs.com though, so no worries ^_^.

On the good side, this means our forums are almost ready! Give us a couple more days though ^_^.

Thanks for your patience!

Michael Hyatt: Recovering The Lost Art of Note-taking

18 April 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: General Tips, Note-Taking

Michael Hyatt doesn’t have a Tablet PC, and he’s not a student, but this post shows that the note-taking skills you learn in grade school/college aren’t just for passing test. Not only will this post give you some tips on organizing your notes, but it will help put the whole process in perspective.  For those who don’t know, Michael is the COO (President) of Thomas Nelson Publishers, so he knows a thing or two on how to be successful.

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