I have scanned a document and need to add text to it, how do I?

Answer 1

If you are trying to change the words you scanned in you need to run the scanned image through an Optical Character Recognition program like Omnipage. That will probably give you 95-99% correct. Microsoft's version of that is even worse. You need to spell check or proofread to fix those errors that remain. Now you have text you can edit. Be aware that if the font is fancy or the spacing is odd the text will come out close to worthless. At that point many people consider retyping and proofreading.

If instead you are trying to add a caption or pointers external to the scanned text then you can use the scanned image with a Photoediting program to drop some words in on top of the picture of the text.

Answer 2

Hello there,

How do you want your output? you want it as image as you scanned or you want it to be a document file for further editing?

If first option is the answer, try using photoshop or other Image manipulation program to add the text.

But as you mentioned you scanned a document, so I guess you want it as document. Most of the scanner comes with a OCR program to convert image to text. If you don't want to take the hassle to install one, here is the solution.

I hope you have Microsoft Office installed at your computer. From Start menu, go to 'Microsoft Office Tools' and select 'Microsoft Office Document Imaging'. and follow the steps. The imaging programe will open an interface to scan and OCR the document for you. You have give some finishing touch to it with spell checking.

If you don't have the original document handy by now, but have the image file, convert it to TIFF format by any Image editing programe and then import it to 'Microsoft Document Imaging' and process it.

Hope this solves your problem.

Thanking You
-- Ashik

Answer 3

You need an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Program. Most scanners come with one such as scan soft or Text Bridge. You should be able to find one on line with a free trial. Try searching for Down loadable OCR Programs. You can look here.http://www.cvisiontech.com/ocr_compression_o.html?[OCR]

Answer 4

Hi,

use word for it.

Insert the picture into word and create a text box.
If the background of the text box should be transparent right click on the text box corner and choose format text box.
Then set the transparency to 100%.

Good luck!

Answer 5

You mean like you used a scanner to scan it on your pc?
if so, than its probily a picture file
you need a photoshop program to do it.

Send me an email with the scan attached and the text you want, i will do it for you

Answer 6

Use a program like Photoshop, or if you don't have that, use Word.. Import the picture from your file then put text under it.

Answer 7

try opening it in MS Paint or copy pasting it to MS Paint, it has a text tool

Answer 8

adobe photosho will do it, go to adobe.com download the free version of cs

Answer 9

u need an ocr program .... like omnipage ..