i can scan the document but i am unable to edit or add text to it. How can i get around this?
2006-08-03 02:57:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Adobe Acrobat and Symantec's WinFax Pro both can do this rather well. Neither are free, but Adobe has a free trial versions from their website, and WinFax is "aged" software at this point and should be available in bargain bins both online and off.
Neither use OCR, but allow you to put your text fields right over the scanned image, which is a lot simpler.
2006-08-03 03:01:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can not :-) When you scan the document it is saved in the computer in the form of a picture and one of the ways to edit a picture is by using Adobe. It's a bit more complicated if you have not done this before, so my suggestion is, fill out the application and then scan it in your PC, that way you will be able to send it out via e-mail.
Hope that helped a bit.
Best of luck,
Mariana
2006-08-03 03:05:00 · answer #2 · answered by Mariana A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OCR recognition. If you have that option in your software it will scan the words as text and not pictures. You should then be able to edit it, with either the scanner software or some sort of document editor.
2006-08-03 03:02:50 · answer #3 · answered by JeffE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scanned form will be an image file, not a text file.
You could layer text over it, using Photoshop, Illustrator or some such program. It will take some work to get it looking right, though.
(I thought OCR software was a bit specialist...)
2006-08-03 03:02:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some freeware OCR applications you can download. You install it, and when you use it to scan a document, it guesses what the letters should be. You can correct any mistakes and add your own text.
2006-08-03 03:04:55 · answer #5 · answered by sarah c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats because when you scan it it becomes an image on your PC - you can't add text to an image unless you use an image processing piece of sofware and that becomes fiddly in the extreme.
Most employers when they give you an application form expect you to fill it in by hand so they can see how you communicate by writing and making your answers concise so they fit in the boxes.
2006-08-03 03:03:33 · answer #6 · answered by Steve C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scanning the form results in either a Adobe Acrobat reader (.pdf) file
or an image (.jpg/.jpeg). Now u can edit the picture using adobe photoshop or u can create a pdf using the pdf creators available for free in the net . Or u can use Adobe Acrobat Writer .. which obviuosly is not a freeware.
Try pdf995.com
or http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Hope it helps u out!
2006-08-03 03:04:56 · answer #7 · answered by vijaya k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need some OCR (optical character recognition) software, such as ABBYY Fine Reader (there are others). Such software will "read" the image that was scanned, and you can export the result in any number of formats (including Word) and edit there.
Good luck!
2006-08-03 03:02:08 · answer #8 · answered by AlphaOne_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where are you scanning it to? You need to scan it to a picture type program. Such as print artist or card shop something that allows you to create a text box. If you just scan it to my docs or womething like that you will not be able to do anything to it.
2006-08-03 03:04:37 · answer #9 · answered by curiosity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, there a tricky solution.
you can scan and save it as a bmp file, then use the text editor with the paint to fil it in. but be sure that the form wont be looking nice. eventhough you can save the scanned file as pdf, the adobe wont recognize any text inside and it wont be searchable. so i think this shall be one of the possible solutions.
2006-08-03 03:03:40 · answer #10 · answered by Jayadevan C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋