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Title: Loading Street Directory data on PC database
Post by: Jeffers-HR on Tuesday 24 April 07 19:19 BST (UK)

The 1911 Street Directory comes on CD but is only searchable by street not names.  Does anyone know if it is technically possible to extract the data to download to a database or spreadsheet program on PC to improve searching and data manipulation?

Title: Re: Loading Street Directory data on PC database
Post by: Simplex4wd on Wednesday 25 April 07 09:52 BST (UK)

How is the data presented? If they're individual pages scanned into an Acrobat document I would imagine the answer is probably no. In theory you could print out the pages, scan them using OCR software and, having checked for errors, import the results into a spreadsheet/database. However this would be time consuming to say the least.
If it's in some other format I'll have a rethink.

Tim