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On 12 March 2010 02:43, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Johnson wrote: >> On Thursday 11 Mar 2010 08:44:57 Neil Winchurst wrote: >>> My wife has many handwritten recipe books, some inherited from previous >>> generations. Some of them are now getting somewhat tatty. I would like >>> to find a program to put them on computer. However I and my daughter use >>> Linux and the wife uses Windows (I knowbut I can't get her to change). >>> Ironically, for my college extended project, I am doing something like this. Alas, Access again :( (though eventually i'll convert it to something a bit more free for home use) For now the DB is just an index by 4 main ingredients, telling the user (mom) where recipie is, and allowing her to say what recipies just use this recipie. She has dreams of a fully automated system where she puts book on the scanner, scans, ocrs and imports all for her, but i have yet to learn programming anything besides Basic/Batch and so the AI she would need is out of the question! Could be fun to see what you decide to use, so I can look at it and work out if there are any features that would be useful and I'm able to encorporate! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html