Genea allows you to use text recognition on images. Everybody would like to see text recognition on hand written documents, and believe me we tried, but it just isn’t going to happen soon. Fortunately you can use text recognition on a whole lot of other documents, like newspapers, books and so on.
Below we demonstrate the use of Genea’s text recognition on images use in the blog from GenealogyBank about Newspaper Articles That Reveal Her Maiden Name.
We show the images use in the blog and the text recognised by Genea. As you’ll notice, it’s not a 100 percent perfect but pretty good.
DEATH OF DERS. E. A. PARKS.
Mrs. Louisa, wife of E. A. Parks of
Waterford, died very suddenly at the
home of her son, Charles E. Parks, in
Somerville, Mass., last
Thursday
evening of pneumonia. She went to
Boston two weeks ago last Saturday
to visit relatives and take a needed
rest. She was unwell most of the
time while there, but was taken
worse On Tuesday evening of last
week and died the following Thurs-
dav.
Her husband, her daughter,
Mrs. Richard Eastman of Brooklyn,
N. Y., and her son, Charles E., were
with her during the last hours. Mrs.
Parks was born at Concord 68 years
ago. She was married 49 cars ago
and she and Judge Parks had planned
to celebrate their 50th wedding anni-
versary in August next. She was a
very exemplary woman and had
been a member of the Universalist
church in St. Johnsbury since its or-
ganization.
Her remains
were
brought home, where funeral services
were held on Sunday, her pastor of-
ficiating. Her husband and children
have the sympathy of the entire com-
munity in their great affliction.
The example below is an example that doesn’t work well. The 2 text blocks on the bottom of the image are seen as one block of text (left to right), so the resulting text is a mix of the 2 text blocks. This will be addressed in a future version of Genea. Some errors are the result of the low quality of the image.
CELEBRATE 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
MIR. AND MRS. PETER DOBBIN OF WILMAMS.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dobbin of 1’11• tial mass was celebrated by Rev. Pran-
lams celebrated their 60th wedding an- cia Bowen, d nephew.
St.
Augue–
niversary, Friday, August 20. The happy tine’s church, during which the wedding
couple have rosidad In Alamo towniln. ceremony was repeated.
during their entire married life and
Mr. and Mra. Dobbin during the day
aro well and favorably known by many entertained at their beautiful home In
Kalamazoo and Van Buren county res- Williams the following guests: Mr. 9nd
Idents.
Three children were born to
Mrs, M. K. Cavannugh, Mr. and Mra. P.
them, all of whom realde In WE:llams. Bowen, Mr, and Mrs, John J. Flanigan.
In honor of the occasion, high nup- Mr. and Mrs, J. O’Connor, Mesdames E.
Cloney, 1. Luby, Miss B. McElroy and
Messes, Charles McCrorey, Chrence
The text below is recognised correctly. On the bottom line you’ll see the word year is recognised as vear, but that’s because the the text is cut off and you see a v and not a y.
HOLD FAMILY REUNION
Descendants of Albert and Anna In-
singer Celebrate Anniversary
Sixty members of the Insinger family,
direct descendants of Albert and Anna
Insinger, who. with their children, land-
ed at Philadelphia on the ship Tus-
carora, on November 8, 1848, celebrated
the sixty-first anniversary of their ar-
rival with a family reunion at Schuetzen
Park, Tabor, yesterday.
Little Insingers, as young as three
months, up to aged Insingers with sil-
very hair, attended the reunion, and
when the roll was called there were
but five absentees.
An appropriate program was arranged
by the five male members of the fam-
ily, including Alfred Insinger, Emile In-
singer, Albert Insinger, and Edward In-
singer, who had the affair in charge.
Mrs. Lena Kreig, the oldest daughter
of the family, came all the way from
a town near Akron, Ohio, to attend the
ceremonies, while Mrs. Elizabeth Good-
rich, another daughter, came from Bos-
ton. All the family, with the exception
of the two daughters, reside in or near
Philadelphia.
Speeches were made, and while the
reunion was the first, and given for the
purpose of bringing together for once
all the descendants of Albert and Anna
Margaretta Insinger, it is likely that
other reunions will take place each Vear.
Text below is recognised reasonably well considering the image.
Little Compton, May, 31. This Morning died here Mrs. Elizabers
Paybody late Wife of Mr William Paybody in the 93d Year Of he
Age, She was the Daughter of John Alden
Elg and Prifcilla
Wife Daughter of Mr. William Mullins. This John Alden and *roo
fcilla Mullins were Married at Plymouth in New-England wher
their Daughter Elizabeth was bern. She was Exemplarily Vertuca,
and Pious, and her Memory is bleffed Hag left a very numerou
Potterity ; Her Grand-daughter Bradford is a Grand-mother.
In general we feel the text recognition works well, but there are a few things you can do to help.
Rotated text will not work, so always make sure the text is correctly rotated.
The image quality is an important factor for text recognition. The better the image quality the better the result. A good image quality means that the letters and numbers are clear, and that there is no dust or dirt that would change the image.
We hope this demonstrates the use use of text recognition in Genea, and helps you to better use this feature.
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