How do you do this? (office-type question)

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  • Mr Pheer
    So Fucking Banned
    • Dec 2002
    • 22082

    #1

    How do you do this? (office-type question)

    Lets say I have some printed documents that I need to scan into my computer (I have a scanner) and be able to edit them as a txt file or something similar. How do you do that?

    Everything I deal with is software writing or graphics related, I dont know much about this "office" kind of stuff.

    Thx.
  • TubeKing
    Confirmed User
    • May 2011
    • 541

    #2
    you'll want to scan in it in .doc or .rtf format, the scanner/scanning software should give that option.

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    • Juicy D. Links
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      • Apr 2001
      • 122992

      #3
      you need some shit that can do some OCR on the scanned stuff

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      • vsex
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        • Aug 2010
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        #4
        you need one of these

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        • DVTimes
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          • Jun 2003
          • 31650

          #5
          years ago on my old 486 i had some great softwear that did this.

          not seem anything advertised recently that does this.

          is there any softwear online i can buy or is free?

          i find the easy way to scan documents is to simply photograph them with even just a camera phone, then decrease colour to 2 colours. you get a great copy.
          XXX

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          • JOKER
            Facit Omnia Voluntas
            • Apr 2003
            • 2105

            #6
            If it's just a few pages you can simply use a service like http://ocrnow.com - either with your scanner, or they have an iphone app as well.

            Either way, you're looking for an OCR software.
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            • Mr Pheer
              So Fucking Banned
              • Dec 2002
              • 22082

              #7
              thanks for the replies

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              • BV
                wtf
                • Sep 2001
                • 10914

                #8
                scanning to pdf might work for you

                you'll be able to search the scanned documents for text and edit if need be

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                • 96ukssob
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                  • Mar 2003
                  • 12991

                  #9
                  i did this before, as all other attempts failed. scanned to PDF then converted PDF to DOC
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                  • Serge Litehead
                    Confirmed User
                    • Dec 2002
                    • 5190

                    #10
                    you need ORC software like mentioned above and last I checked scan docs at high dpi resolution, when I did it I did at 600 dpi

                    Abbyy Finereader avail for Win & Mac is a good one
                    http://www.abbyy.com/document_conversion/
                    Last edited by Serge Litehead; 07-26-2011, 05:45 PM.

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                    • LiveDose
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                      • Feb 2002
                      • 25792

                      #11
                      What kind of scanner are you using? The software that came with our HP all-in-one printer/scanner allows us to scan to searchable pdf files.

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                      • mavruda
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                        • Feb 2007
                        • 2597

                        #12
                        OCR option to the software that comes with the scanner should be available. Every scanner has it - see the interface of the program.

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                        • leg4
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                          • May 2003
                          • 4429

                          #13
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                          • calvinawe
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                            • Sep 2009
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                            #14
                            "recognita" worked really well. but then again, it was about 12 years ago.
                            yep.

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                              #15
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                              • Chosen
                                • Aug 2001
                                • 63151

                                #16
                                OCR

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