Is there a way to copy the person’s RecordID in any screens in RootsMagic?
I don’t think directly but you could run a report that had it listed in a column, save the report in Excel and then copy from there. (might be easier to type in Notepad and copy from there)
I’ve used Capture2Text for this successfully.
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even most AI usually do a good job with “transcribing” ( also for handwriting death certificates)
In Windows, Window+Shift+T allows you to select a region. Then it does OCR on the selected image and puts the resulting text into the clipboard.
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@jwyckoff If you are wanting just a few of the Record numbers , all the suggestions above would work-- if you want all the record numbers ( or a large amount of them) in a database, then do an Advanced search in RM 11 --once done print it to an adobe file or Word etc-- do NOT print to printer directly from there as the report is definitely messed up-- on a small database it was 74 pages long basically because there were tons of blanks pages..
@kevync1985 JUST like Bruce says be sure to tell AI exact transcription only and then verify that what AI gives you is EXACTLY what the document says-- I have had AI do a wonderful job on translating German Church Records and a horrible job on a German obit ( all 3 different AI companies but will say it was a bad scan)–so I tried in the last 2 days asking for a transcription of a handwritten burial record page and a handwritten death certificate-- none of them were right as AI wasn’t transcribing my scan ( which both were good copies) BUT was going on the internet and looking up what they thought was the correct record ( which it wasn’t) based on a few things from my scan and transcribing that-- AI even admitted to me they were NOT giving me a precise translation without any fluff-- that said I tried an Adobe PDF of a death certificate and it transcribed it beautifully-- just like AI prompts, verify what AI is saying
For clarification I was not using anything from RM AI or other wise – I was adding missing info on records such as Cause of Death. Of course one should also review the info AI has provided. Two diff AI might provide very different results. In general it is always best to give context (German death record from early 1900s and so on)