how do u edit something u scanned??

Question

i want to retype some parts!

Answer 1

well if you have scanned a DOCUMENT, you have to have special software that recognized scanned type. Its called OCR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

If you don't have software that can do this, you will ahve to retype the document.

Look in your scanners software to see if you have this available.

If its an image you want to edit, you will need an image editing program. MSPAINT is included with Windows. Other popular programs are Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, and Paint Shop Pro

Answer 2

If you scanned it in as a graphic (the extension will probably be jpg, gif, or bmp) then the only thing you can do is edit it like you would edit a photograph. There is scanning software that will attempt to recognize the letters (called Optical Character Recognition or OCR) at which point you could edit it with whatever program that the OCR software formatted the document into (probably Adobe Acrobat or MS Word).

I suspect you have the first problem. The easiest thing to do would be to retype what you want, print it, cut and paste it - literally - onto the original document, and rescan it.

Answer 3

If it's an entirely text document, then, like others told you, you better get an OCR program, which most probably you may have one somewhere in your scanner's bundled CD(s); look for something like OmniPage or TextBridge, for example.
But, on the other hand, if you want to maintain the structure of your scanned document, like the header, footer, images and logos that may be there, and only change a simple word or number, then OCR stuff won't be of much help to you since then you'll have to republish the whole document again, so you will have to use an image editing program, like Adobe Photoshop, for example, AND you must have some skills to achieve your target as desired.
If you wish, and if it's not a private document, or something, you can send it to me, along with the notes of modifications you want, and I will be glad to help; I work in this field!

Answer 4

You need to scan with a program that uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition). That will save your scan as editable text.

Answer 5

you need a photo editing program.

GIMP is a popular free editor:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=graphicssoft&cdn=compute&tm=4&gps=112_284_1276_575&f=00&su=p284.2.420.ip_&tt=3&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.gimp.org/windows/

Answer 6

click start click run and type "mspaint"