Guest Conor D Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 I have an essay and want to scan it and then edit the text in Word,rather then typing the whole thing out,looking for ways to carry ouy the above function Regards Conor D
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: Scanning/edit word doc. You want what is known as OCR -- Optical Character Recognition. Cheap ones are typically included with consumer scanners, or you can Google OCR to find more. In my opinion, most OCR apps are mediocre. Only work well if the paper is clean, etc. And formatting is lost. Myself, I use ABBYY software. Not cheap. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Conor D" <conor_dalton@vodafone.ie> wrote in message news:8D650361-1CAB-40B0-A16A-881827F7B103@microsoft.com... >I have an essay and want to scan it and then edit the text in Word,rather > then typing the whole thing out,looking for ways to carry ouy the above > function > Regards > Conor D
Guest Jerry Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: Scanning/edit word doc. "Conor D" <conor_dalton@vodafone.ie> wrote in message news:8D650361-1CAB-40B0-A16A-881827F7B103@microsoft.com... >I have an essay and want to scan it and then edit the text in Word,rather > then typing the whole thing out,looking for ways to carry ouy the above > function > Regards > Conor D Get an OCR program for your scanner.
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: Scanning/edit word doc. "Conor D" <conor_dalton@vodafone.ie> wrote in message news:8D650361-1CAB-40B0-A16A-881827F7B103@microsoft.com... >I have an essay and want to scan it and then edit the text in Word,rather > then typing the whole thing out,looking for ways to carry ouy the above > function > Regards > Conor D Bear in mind that OCR programs aren't always that great (and depend on the scanner and the quality of the scanned image), and you absolutely have to check every word. HTH -pk
Guest HeyBub Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: Scanning/edit word doc. Conor D wrote: > I have an essay and want to scan it and then edit the text in > Word,rather then typing the whole thing out,looking for ways to carry > ouy the above function > Regards Contact the author of the essay and ask for a copy in machine-readable form. Paper is SO quaint...
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