OneNote Project

[Kevin]

I am asking for suggestions before I start a ver LARGE project on OneNote.
I am in radio, and I am working on a syndicated radio show that is going to
be an oldies show. I have charts from the 70-90s, and I want to scan them
and put them in OneNote for safe keeping. Here is how I was thinking on
doing this;
First there are 2 companies that created charts of songs at this time. I was
going to create a notebook for each one. Then on the top of the notebook, I
was going to going to create tabs at the top for the years; 1971,1972,1973
and so on. Then on the right side, do those tabs on the actual dates of the
chart. Then scan the chart into the page. I have all the charts, but they
are getting old and I want to save them before they are no longer readable.
NOW.... I would welcome any ideas or suggestions. I want to be able to
access this information easily while I record the show.
I also am planning on creating a notebook on the artists and have all kinds
of interesting facts on them as well as stories behind the songs and their
web pages and stuff.
SO... any suggestions before I leap in and start to do this? Because I know
this is going to be a HUGE job, I wanted to get information and suggestions
before I go in there and start and discover, I could have done it a different
way.
Thanks

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

I love this application of OneNote! It is imaginative, helpful, and a great
way to show the power of the tool... probably in a way you don't realize.
When you drop a scanned image with text onto a OneNote 2007 page, OneNote
will do its best to "recognize" the content of the image. This means that
you can access the information live merely by searching for the artist name,
etc.

--
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

 

[Kevin]

So, I assume what you are saying is that, once all the charts are scanned
into OneNote and I wanted to look up, say, Paul McCartney, it will pull up
all the charts where he had a song?

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Yup. Well, close anyway. What it will do is show you the closest match. You
can then open the results task pane and see the other locations. Each listed
location in the task pane will be a link to the actual information on the
page.

--
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

 

[Kevin]

Well thanks Kathy for all the information. I guess the way I am planning on
doing this is the best way to do this. I figure if there was a better way,
you would have told me.
Thanks for letting me know some of the things OneNote will do.
Kevin

 

[JohnGoogle]

I've found that some very clear images are not OCR'd very well by
OneNote.

When I tried the demo i was very impressed.

I then imported some images with very clear text (from Visual Basic)
and found that OneNote made lots of errors when extracting text from
the image.

Be wary of the OCR capabilities of OneNote.

JohnGoogle.