Using Transcript for Transcribing Documents

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Transcript is a little tool, developed by Jacob Boerema that helps you transcribe text from digital media. Eileen Souza, back in 2011, had just accepted a job to transcribe fifty-two early deeds so she began looking for something that might make the job, if not easy, at least easier – and discovered Transcript, a little gem.

At the time she was scanning the deeds in as both TIF and PDF images and Transcript could open both. It could make the image fairly large and even magnify a letter, if needed. The software allows the user to take a transcribed file (in RTF format) and open in MS Word or any other text editor that supports RTF to complete it …

Read more about Transcript by clicking here.

QBFHS members may find this tool helpful if you are working on your “Tell Us A Story” contest.    For more information on the contest, please click here.