Does a program like this exist??

Psychobob777 · 01-11-2007, 04:22 AM

Is there a way to scan a page with printed words on it, and turn in into a text document without haveing to type the whole thing?

Please if you dont know, give me examples of things to search in google or something.

Thanks

Jet · 01-11-2007, 04:25 AM

I personally haven't done this, but it might be able to be done. Here's a search:

Google Search: scan to text

Trizoy · 01-11-2007, 04:26 AM

OCR converter

Psychobob777 · 01-11-2007, 04:32 AM

Thats guys your the best....both of you!!! now I can get my school work done by simply * Ctrl F * LOL

Jon · 01-15-2007, 11:56 PM

huh? is he being sarcastic lol?

im pretty sure there are programs that do this as we learnt about them at school, search for a OCR (optical character recognition) program.

kof2000 · 01-16-2007, 02:18 AM

scan it to a pdf file then use a pdf converter and convert it into word file.

heyman421 · 01-16-2007, 06:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kof2000

scan it to a pdf file then use a pdf converter and convert it into word file.

that's different

that's for acrobat documents with embedded text, not adobe documents that are simply pictures

and ocr isn't foolproof. i'd spellcheck it...... twice..... you'll see what i mean

Also, it usually doesn't end up formatted quite right, either

diduknowthat · 01-17-2007, 03:36 AM

Many scanners comes with programs that does the conversion for you. But sometimes they don't work very well

leetkyle · 01-17-2007, 02:11 PM

with my writing, it'll never work. i'll get up a screenshot later for you. I guarantee you won't be able to read it!

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