WHAT PROGRAM AND FILE TYPE DO I USE

[Guest mar]

-- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I

NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I USE

TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE CAN

HELP ME PLEASE.

 

sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me once it

was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were shouting .. so i am

not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to anyone who takes offence this was

not in tensional

mar

[Guest Gary S. Terhune]

Re: WHAT PROGRAM AND FILE TYPE DO I USE

 

To scan a document is to take a picture of it. You generally do this from

within an image editing program, or you press a button and the scanner

automatically sends it to some pre-defined application for use. You can't

edit text in a scanned document unless you first use Optical Character

Recognition (OCR ) software to convert it back to text. You can usually scan

directly into an OCR application, just like you can scan into an image

editing application.

 

--

Gary S. Terhune

MS-MVP Shell/User

http://www.grystmill.com

 

"mar" <mar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>

> -- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I

> NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I

> USE

> TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE

> CAN

> HELP ME PLEASE.

>

> sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me once it

> was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were shouting .. so i

> am

> not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to anyone who takes offence this

> was

> not in tensional

> mar

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: WHAT PROGRAM AND FILE TYPE DO I USE

 

mar wrote:

> -- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO

> WHAT I NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT

> PROGRAM DO I USE TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE

> EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME PLEASE.

>

> sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me

> once it was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were

> shouting .. so i am not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to

> anyone who takes offence this was not in tensional

> mar

 

There is no 'universal file that everyone can edit'..

What programs do you have that could edit a file you scan...

Common scanned file types: JPG, TIFF, PDF...

 

MSPAINT could edit the first two.

You'd know if you had a program installed that could edit PDFs.

 

--

Shenan Stanley

MS-MVP

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[Guest Phil]

Re: WHAT PROGRAM AND FILE TYPE DO I USE

 

Hi mar

If your scanner will let you choose scan to "ORC" like my Epson 1660, then you can choose word pad,

note pad or word. After that you can edit and save or print.

[Guest Ken Blake]

Re: WHAT PROGRAM AND FILE TYPE DO I USE

 

"mar" <mar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:5C1B83EB-10F2-4F09-A605-64493F02DEA4@microsoft.com...

>

> -- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I

> NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I

> USE

> TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE

> CAN

> HELP ME PLEASE.

>

> sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me once it

> was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were shouting .. so i

> am

> not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to anyone who takes offence this

> was

> not in tensional

 

 

It's not that "some people take this as if [you] were shouting," it's that

it *feels* like you're shouting. It's also very difficult to read, so we

would all appreciate it if you were very careful not to do it in the future.

 

When you scan a document (or anything else), you end up with a graphic

image--essentially a picture of the document. If that document had words

printed on it, what you get is a picture of the words, not the words

themselves. So the result is *not* editable in a word processing program.

 

You can however, turn that picture into editable text by processing it with

an Optical Character Recognition (usually called OCR) program. Such a

program looks at the picture, recognizes the letters in it, and produces a

normal editable text file as output. There are a number of such programs you

can buy, and a light version of one of them may have come with your scanner.

 

Note that none of these programs is perfect, and you need to proofread what

it creates carefully. How accurate their result is depends on the program

you use, the quality and cleanliness of the document you're scanning, and

the typeface you start with.

 

--

Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User

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[Guest C.Joseph Drayton]

Re: WHAT PROGRAM AND FILE TYPE DO I USE

 

mar wrote:

> -- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I

> NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I USE

> TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE CAN

> HELP ME PLEASE.

>

> sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me once it

> was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were shouting .. so i am

> not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to anyone who takes offence this was

> not in tensional

> mar

 

There is a FreeWare program called FillOutAForm (By Doug

Cox) that will take a BMP and allow you to place and edit

fields on a scanned form. It saves the data as a .DTA file.

 

Most scanners default to TIFF or PDF, either of which can

then be converted to BMP.

 

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

 

"A promise is nothing more than an attempt,

to respond to an unreasonable request."

[Guest Tim Slattery]

Re: WHAT PROGRAM AND FILE TYPE DO I USE

 

mar <mar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

>-- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I

>NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I USE

>TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE CAN

>HELP ME PLEASE.

 

Your scanner will produce an image file, probably a jpeg. It sounds

like you want a text file or word file, to do that you'll have to run

the image file through an OCR (Optical Character Reader) program.

Google for OCR, there are lots of choices.

 

--

Tim Slattery

MS MVP(DTS)

Slattery_T@bls.gov

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt