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Posted by Slartibartfarst
Sep 16, 2013 at 12:05 PM
@Dr Andus: Where you say “My process with electronic books and articles is similar, except that there is no need to use Dragon to dictate quotes and comments, usually copy and paste works fine (in fact I turn PDFs into Word with AABBYY FineReader to remove line breaks)”, I would be interested to know whether and how you have used Qiqqa (reference management) or Calibre (book management) for this type of work and what the outcome was.
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 16, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Slartibartfarst wrote:
> I would be
>interested to know whether and how you have used Qiqqa (reference
>management) or Calibre (book management) for this type of work and what
>the outcome was.
Have tried Qiqqa beta some years ago. I was impressed with it but it didn’t appear to be helpful with my existing 1000+ library of PDFs. Haven’t heard of Calibre before. Do you any specific suggestions about these two software? I’d be interested to hear it.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Sep 16, 2013 at 12:43 PM
@WSP:
“I agree that OneNote’s text-extraction capabilities are superior to those of Evernote, and in general I admire OneNote very much. I used an earlier version of it for about a year. I think my main misgiving about the program was that everything seemed to be tied so closely into other Microsoft products; since I have always scrupulously avoided Word, that didn’t feel like an advantage to me. Still, I’m glad to hear your enthusiastic report.”
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I am usually one to criticise MS, but since about 2007 I have been greatly impressed by the way they effectively stitched up the market by integrating ALL MS Office products AND Internet Explorer, with SharePoint. Now InfoPath is a significantly useful tool in that integration.
One of the successes of OneNote would seem to be the apparently smooth OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) of other applications’ documents - and particularly those documents from the MS Office suite. You have to try it out to appreciate how well it works. It is redolent of Ashton-Tate’s Framework V, but not as good IMO.
You can also print to Onenote from other applications (OneNote is a printer!), where the printout takes the form of images output into the Notebook - whose embedded text is promptly OCRed and indexed and available for extraction/copying!
By using this printout method as a standard lowest common denominator, none of the typical constipated document conversion is required…
Now, if all of the above is coupled with the given that the lowest entry price to the MS Office Professional Plus suite can be as low as US$9.95 (refer “Want Microsoft Office? $9.95 Could Get You A Copy” - http://www.worldstart.com/want-microsoft-office-9-95-could-get-you-a-copy/ ), then one’s previous reservations about MS Office might well evaporate like an early morning mist.
Well, mine did, anyway.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Sep 16, 2013 at 12:50 PM
@Dr Andus:
“Have tried Qiqqa beta some years ago. I was impressed with it but it didn’t appear to be helpful with my existing 1000+ library of PDFs. Haven’t heard of Calibre before. Do you any specific suggestions about these two software? I’d be interested to hear it.”
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Please see the reviews and discussion threads here:
Calibre - e-Book (Personal Library/Document) Management - Mini-Review - http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29691.0
Calibre - e-Book (Personal Library/Document) Management - Mini-Review - http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29691.0
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Sep 16, 2013 at 12:55 PM
Sorry, the second link should have been: Qiqqa - Reference Management System - Mini-Review - http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=34220.0
(We are not enabled to edit a post once it has been made - is that right?)