Jimmie D wrote:
I was thinking in terms of posting excerpts on the newsgroup. Binaries are
frowned upon here

OCR software could be used for ASCII text but without the
equations and graphics, excerpts are of limited usefulness.
Here's how I solved the quoting problem:

http://www.w5dxp.com/krausdip.jpg

http://www.qsl.net offers free web pages to amateur radio
operators.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Cecil Moore wrote:

...
Here's how I solved the quoting problem:

http://www.w5dxp.com/krausdip.jpg

http://www.qsl.net offers free web pages to amateur radio
operators.

Cecil:

I expected a textual description.

You copied the "image" from adobe, then pasted that image into a image
handling application and saved it as a jpeg image???

By the way, "Fine Reader" is the best OCR application--in my humble
opinion ... it seemingly works like "magic." :-)

Regards,
JS

John Smith I wrote:
You copied the "image" from adobe, then pasted that image into a image
handling application and saved it as a jpeg image???

Yep, Alt-Print-Screen takes the screen display and puts
it in the clipboard from which it can be pasted to any
image application for trimming, e.g Microsoft Paint.
OCR is of limited usefulness when graphics need to
accompany the text.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Cecil Moore wrote:

...
OCR is of limited usefulness when graphics need to
accompany the text.

Cecil:

Very true, however, the graphics in question can be copied (such as with
your method), clipped, saved as an individual image (away from any
"text") and added/inserted to the text gleaned from using the OCR
program, allowing one to "recreate" the original document(s).

Not easy (or for the faint hearted), but can be done ...

Regards,
JS

OCR is of limited usefulness when graphics need to
accompany the text.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

OmniPage OCR software can recognize the text and also copy the
pictures/graphics and recreate the page and save in various formats.
It can work from scanned documents or graphics format files.

Snagit software can take snapshots of just about anything selected/cutout on
the screen and save/paste to about anything.

Yuri, K3BU