Converted scanned document from image to a word/excel document

[Arkai]

Is there any free software out there that will allow me to scan a document and convert it into word/excel and allow editing?

 

[Atheus]

I've never heard of something that does this. It seems possible, but it would be a nightmare to code... almost as bad as handwriting recognition. Would probably make just as many errors too.

 

[SaturnX]

It's more commonly known as OCR (optical character recognition), and they're pretty popular, my first scanner came with some OCR software, and it worked suprisingly well.

Just stumbled across this:

http://www.simpleocr.com/

But yeah, just google "OCR" if you want to research more.

--Mark

 

[Arkai]

Originally posted by: SaturnX
It's more commonly known as OCR (optical character recognition), and they're pretty popular, my first scanner came with some OCR software, and it worked suprisingly well.

Just stumbled across this:

http://www.simpleocr.com/

But yeah, just google "OCR" if you want to research more.

--Mark

Ahh yes, OCR that's what its called.

That may just do the trick, very much appreciated. Thank you!

 

[SaturnX]

If it works well for you, post in the Freeware thread in this Forum so others can find out about it, since I've never used it myself.

--Mark

 

[xtknight]

Thanks for the link, SaturnX!

 

[Arkai]

It didn't work out too well

Although I did find out there is one built into the microsoft office suite which works pretty well.