I have about 300 pages of hard copy text that I need to amend; maybe change a few lines here and there. It would be quite daunting to rewrite the whole lot. Is there a program out there that can recognize scanned text images and convert them into 'Word'?
2006-12-24 01:26:13 · 7 answers · asked by harikass 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Search on Google or Yahoo. There are softwares to do this though may not be 100% precise. You may also have to spend some bucks. Best Luck!
2006-12-24 01:32:53 · answer #1 · answered by YogPrakash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is software to do this. Note though, that every one of these programs has its own little glitches. No program I've ever used has recognized every character. Some do not maintain formatting. For work, I honestly found it quicker to retype the whole document. But for 300 pages, I would give the software(s) a shot.
2006-12-24 01:36:36 · answer #2 · answered by Enchanted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most scanners come with software that will convert the scanned "image" into a text file. From there, it can be imported into Word.
2006-12-24 01:30:19 · answer #3 · answered by Rocketmaniac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OCR - Optical Character Recognition softwares can solve your problem. Most of them comes with scanners but there are lot of shareware and freeware softwares are available on Internet.
Just visit link given in source and see "Free and open source software".
Hope this will solve your problem.
2006-12-24 01:38:58 · answer #4 · answered by Azeem Siddiqui 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some scanners you can scan documents right into Word with.
Ron
2006-12-24 01:31:08 · answer #5 · answered by Ron75 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to use a OCR(optical character recognition) software for that.
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2006-12-24 01:45:48 · answer #6 · answered by Slash_de _sad 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some softwares can do this for u
2006-12-24 01:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by John Doe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋