Screen shot of Transcript in action:

Screen shot of a marriage transcription.

Where to get it:

http://www.jacobboerema.nl/en/Freeware.htm

Not convinced yet:

The following is from their website;

Transcript came into being because of my dissatisfaction with using a seperate editor and picture viewer when transcribing digital images of old documents. I always had to switch between the editor and my image viewer when I needed to move the image so the next part would be visible.

I thought that it should be easier when this could be done from within one program. I couldn’t find a program that did this though, so I decided that I would try to write such a program myself, and here is the result.

The basic idea is very simple. Divide the screen in two parts. In the upper half the image is shown and in the lower half you can edit the text. (As this is not an OCR program, the program does not convert the text. You have to do the transcription yourself.) The size of those windows can be changed as you wish.

From within the editor you can move the visible part of the image in many ways using shortcuts. You can also use keys to move to the previous or next image in the same directory. Besides that it is of course possible to use most of the common editor functions also found in other editors.

Transcipt has furthermore many options and additional functions which are designed to help make it easier for the user to transcribe an image.- Jacob Boerema - http://www.jacobboerema.nl/en/