edit scanned document?

Question

I need to edit a scanned document and my scanner has ocr. The problem is when I send to wordpad or notepad it changes the format. I need to keep the document as it originally was. With boxes and columns, it rearranges the document to look like a typed message. I triend editing it this way and printing but it prints as a typed message.

What am I doing wrong?

There are no graphics.

Answer 1

You did not mention if the scan includes graphics.

I believe you'll have a lot better luck by staying out of wordpad or notepad for editing scans.

Try using an HTML (web publishing) editor such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver amongst others. Adobe has other programs that are far superior to Acrobat.

Simply scan to application OR import the scan into it.

OR,

Scan the document as an image. You may or not be proficient enough to edit images but you've mentioned that you need to keep the document as it originally is. So, scan to your image viewer (whatever that is) to accomplish this.

Answer 2

This should work. First convert the scanned doc to PDF and then edit. You need Adobe Acrobat prof for this though.

Answer 3

Open the cptured image with (paint) use tools & edit..../i use it in windows 7 don't know about others if not open than change the image formet to jpg. formet