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Janet Wilder[_1_] Janet Wilder[_1_] is offline
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Default Recipie Indexing Help!!

Carl Navarro wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:45:02 -0400, Goomba >
> wrote:
>
>> Carl Navarro wrote:
>>> Here's the deal. My mom passed away last month and I got all of her
>>> recipie books. I don't have a clue what to do, so maybe someone here
>>> can advise me.
>>>
>>> I can scan each page, about a 3-5 minute job, but I don't know if I
>>> should or how to index them.

>> Why bother scanning them at all? Your mother had a quaint old fashioned
>> way of looking at her recipes-she turned the pages. Why not just do that
>> too in honor of Mom?

>
> I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
> I can't keep them :-)
>
> Carl, I only got them for a month or two
>
>

Have you considered scanning with OCR and using a cookbook program like
Master Cook or Living Cookbook?

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