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How to make a Digital Recipe Book?
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<blockquote data-quote="DavidHH" data-source="post: 1430452" data-attributes="member: 145862"><p>If you have a scanner you can use it and then run the file thru PDFPen to make it "searchable .pdf".</p><p></p><p>I think that is the best of both worlds i.e. you get to capture the beautiful glossy photo of the food, you do not have to type in any words and your scanned image is searchable based on the words in the recipie.</p><p>If you want to go a step further you can then put the .pdf file in a "heirarchiel" folder structure e.g. Poultry Folder, Beef Folder, Casserole Folder.</p><p></p><p>Another additional bonus is if you find a recipie on the Web you can just "Print, Save As .pdf" and you can also collect recipies from the Web into your File System. You could also run this .pdf file thru PDFPen (or any other OCR Program) and it will be "searchable" for the words from the recipie.</p><p></p><p>Lastly you have the added benefit of your Recipie System not becoming "obsolete". What I mean by that is I was stung once by using a Recipie Software Program and the company went out of business and I was left with a propriortory database that I could not use.</p><p></p><p>One other thought as an alternative, if you are kind of geeky and like databases, you could make your own database using Bento. It is easy to use, has some great database recipie templates.</p><p></p><p>Just my 2 cents</p><p>DavidH</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DavidHH, post: 1430452, member: 145862"] If you have a scanner you can use it and then run the file thru PDFPen to make it "searchable .pdf". I think that is the best of both worlds i.e. you get to capture the beautiful glossy photo of the food, you do not have to type in any words and your scanned image is searchable based on the words in the recipie. If you want to go a step further you can then put the .pdf file in a "heirarchiel" folder structure e.g. Poultry Folder, Beef Folder, Casserole Folder. Another additional bonus is if you find a recipie on the Web you can just "Print, Save As .pdf" and you can also collect recipies from the Web into your File System. You could also run this .pdf file thru PDFPen (or any other OCR Program) and it will be "searchable" for the words from the recipie. Lastly you have the added benefit of your Recipie System not becoming "obsolete". What I mean by that is I was stung once by using a Recipie Software Program and the company went out of business and I was left with a propriortory database that I could not use. One other thought as an alternative, if you are kind of geeky and like databases, you could make your own database using Bento. It is easy to use, has some great database recipie templates. Just my 2 cents DavidH [/QUOTE]
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