how to clip text from onenote page

[David]

I have many articles for a research project. They are mainly from the web.
I want to collect short clips from several and copy the text. OneNote curser
just draws a blue outline around the text, but no way to clip text. Can
anyone help

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Let's star with are they text or printouts? And are you running OneNote 2003
or 2007? It sounds like they are printouts or scans of the articles, not the
text of the articles. In this case, if you are using OneNote 2007, right
click the article and select "Copy text". Then paste the text elsewhere on
the page. That should get you the text of the article.

Before you use the text anywhere, make sure you are following standard
quotation and attribution rules. Get permission to use the pieces too as
needed.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
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[David]

Kathy, thanks for your quick response. First a couple of answers.
Let's star with are they text or printouts? And are you running OneNote 2003
or 2007?

This text is the result of sending your response to OneNote 2007, then
copying and pasting text in the manner you described. The result is good.
Next I "printed" a Word 2007 document to OneNote 2007, followed the same
procedure, and again got a good copy.

Next I followed the same procedure on a document downloaded from a web site.
This was again "printed" to OneNote. The result is shown below

AuthoT veTsion of papeT published as:
Dawes, Les and Goonetilleke, Ashantha (2003)
An investigation into the Tole of site and so il chaTacteTistics in on-site
sewage tTeatment. Environmental Geology 44(4): pp. 46?-4??
copyTight 2003 spTingeT-veTlag
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ROLE OF SITE AND SOIL CHARACTERISTICS IN ON-SITE
SEWAGE TREATMENT
L ES D AWES AND A SHANTHA G OONETlLLEKE
school of civil EngineeTing,
Queensland univeTsity of Technology

Two problems exist with this technique. The first is having the whole page
tranfered to text, it is not possible to cut a portion of the text from a
page. OneNote allows one page or every page in the document.

The second is probably related to the OneNote embedded OCR machine, and its
quality of recognition. The first part of the text was small format, and
recognition is not very good. The title text on the page was much larger,
and the OCR recognition is better; but not perfect.

I took the image of the OneNote page and used a well known OCR software
package. This was better, but again not perfect. However, it has a
"training" mode which will increase recognition accuracy in multipage
documents.

For a short text clip I will use OneNote and manually correct. In addition,
I will include the URL of the source document (either web or LAN) so that I
always have the option of "cut and paste" from the site or document.

Once again, thanks for your response

David

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Glad to be of help.
One more idea: If you don't want the full page, cheat
Use either SnagIt or OneNote's Screen Clip feature to grab just the part you
want. Paste that in, then do the copy text. I have also found that the
larger the text size, the better the recognition works. So, when possible,
bump the viewing size up before you take the clip. (As an example: I use
IE7. If I take the shot of a page being viewed at 150%, I get better
recognition than when I take it from a page being viewed at 100%.)

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[David]

Good tips.

One other point, if a Word document or web page is sent to OneNote by using
the "print to OneNote" option the URL is not documented by OneNote. I find
it necessary to cut and paste the URL onto the OneNote page. I usually paste
the URL at the start of the captured page image. This then allows me to
return to the source document.

Another option is to use Google. If Google is used to find a source
document that is, for example, a pdf file it automatically provides a html
version of the file. This is often a very good text version of the original
document.

Thanks again for your support and suggestions.

David

 

[jeffward]

I have tried all of this and still have the same question. Is there an easy
way to select, cut, and copy just a PORTION of a One Note page? Text seems
to be easy to do, but I can't find a good way to do just a PORTION of an
image.

The screen clipping feature apparently does not work within One Note. When
I click it from inside One Note, it leaves One Note and wants to clip from
the last screen viewed (usually my desktop). Is there something else I could
so.

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

I have tried all of this and still have the same question. Is there an easy
way to select, cut, and copy just a PORTION of a One Note page? Text seems
to be easy to do, but I can't find a good way to do just a PORTION of an
image.

The screen clipping feature apparently does not work within One Note. When
I click it from inside One Note, it leaves One Note and wants to clip from
the last screen viewed (usually my desktop). Is there something else I could
so.

There are two options:
You can use the windowskey+S to capture a screenclipping to the unfiled
notes section. This will allow you to capture a portion of the active
OneNote window.
If you want to capture a screen clipping using the toolbar button, you
can open up a second OneNote window (ctrl+M) and then use the screen
clipping button from one of the windows to capture a clipping of the
other window.

Ilya

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Sneaky!!! I do the windows-s key, but never thought to do it from a 2nd
instance of OneNote. Since I usually do have two instances open pointing to
different notebooks (one pointing to unfiled and one to filed content,
usually), I am going to make this part of my regular habits. (That is, when
I don't need the extras of SnagIt )

Thanks Ilya!

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[jeffward]

That worked great! Thanks a bunch.

Jeff

Sneaky!!! I do the windows-s key, but never thought to do it from a 2nd
instance of OneNote. Since I usually do have two instances open pointing to
different notebooks (one pointing to unfiled and one to filed content,
usually), I am going to make this part of my regular habits. (That is, when
I don't need the extras of SnagIt )

Thanks Ilya!

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived