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Best way of digitally saving printed poems?
Morran
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My great grandfather was somewhat of a poet. He used to write songs, speeches and poetry for various family occasions.
My grandfather (and other relatives) collected his work in a few binders (both handwritten and machine written pages) over time.
We are now in the process of cleaning out my grandparents house, and I'm thinking about how best to preserve/share these documents.
I'm thinking of both photographing the pages (since some of them are in his own handwriting), and maybe saving the text in some convenient format which can easily be shared among family.
Is my best option just to take the photographs, and write stuff in e.g. Word and then dump it in some Google folder? I would like, if possible, to have some kind of indexing to allow to search through time, and possibly topic (e.g. "poem", "song", "speech" etc).
My grandfather (and other relatives) collected his work in a few binders (both handwritten and machine written pages) over time.
We are now in the process of cleaning out my grandparents house, and I'm thinking about how best to preserve/share these documents.
I'm thinking of both photographing the pages (since some of them are in his own handwriting), and maybe saving the text in some convenient format which can easily be shared among family.
Is my best option just to take the photographs, and write stuff in e.g. Word and then dump it in some Google folder? I would like, if possible, to have some kind of indexing to allow to search through time, and possibly topic (e.g. "poem", "song", "speech" etc).
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It would probably get you better results than photographing. (Granted, my phones got some years on it so it doesn't have a great camera, but I can't take a legible picture of a document with the thing.)
If you type them into Google Docs, they'll be fully searchable. I'd probably make a public/limited access folder on Drive and maybe create sub folders as well.
You could then attach the scanned originals with the docs, keeping the same name.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
^There should be various makes & models of OCR scanning pens available on Amazon etcetera. It depends on your budget.