what program can i use to edit text in a scanned document?

Question

I do not want to change th format of the document. It has pictures etc

Answer 1

As the entire document is actually a full page picture, there is no practical way to do it. Could open in a graphic program and use the text tool, but not practical.

What you can do it rescan the document using OCR software (which comverts the word on the paper into a text document. Then use a graphic program to crop the pictures out of the original scanned document. Finally use a word processor to put the text and the picture back together in the layout of the original document.

Answer 2

I use my HP 4700 scanner with an OMNI OCR software package. The software controls the scanner and produces a word file that is readible by WORD.

About a year ago I scanned a 683 page book on my family's genealogy, converting it to a WORD document. Originally one page per file. Then I merged the pages into a single document so I could update it.

Even with the OCR software it is still a lot of work.