Many old genealogy books are converted to computer text by use of OCR, short for optical character recognition. Beau Sharbrough of MyFamily.com has written an excellent introduction to the topic. You can read Beau’s article at http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/8812.asp?o_iid=831&o_lid=831&o_it=4717#article.
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