scanning only data from pages to save it on pc as a excel or notepad file?

Question

I have a book containing three columns i.e name address telephone number. I want to save these data on my hard disk. If I scan these pages, they save as a page but I don't want to save pages, I want only data from these pages to be saved as a excel or notepad file. Typing these data on pc is a lengthy procedure. Is there any shorter way

one of my friend tried ocr and the result was that the data moved either moved out of page or overlapped each other thus not getting scanned properly, if u have been successful in ur attempt, kindly explain in detail the correct procedure

Answer 1

You could try OCRing one column at a time by masking two columns out.

Answer 2

New scanners usually come with their own softwares. these software have a feature called OCR. you can perform an OCR and save the page as a notepad, word or even a PDF file.

but if you have the data written by your hand then it will be very difficult for the OCR to understand what is written. so the best is you have to write it on your PC.

Answer 3

You need an ocr software. Most scanner comes with a lite version. Try this and convert them into readable text.

Answer 4

this may be accomplished so actual in the starting up you want to understand how information factors separated from one yet another excel can understand comma separated,tab separated and some more suitable what you want is tab separated one so: elect document>import (if you're utilizing 2003 version) and or elect place of work button (in case you employ 2007 version) then flow to open and detect your textual content information document excel will open a communicate field and asks how your information are elect the right one and that could be accomplished really ordinary.

Answer 5

Couldnt you hilight the text and paste it into notepad,
then save it as a text file
Open the text file in Excel, and parse it as a space deliminated text into seperate columns.
That has worked for me many times over