Editing a scanned document

[MrsWaggy]

Waggy scanned a document into adobe for me but i need to put it into word so I can make some changes to it. He can not remember how.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You need to take the scan, still as a TIFF or JPEG (the graphic the scanner first creates) not as adobe, and use the "OCR" (Optical Character Recognition) part of the software bundle that came with your scanner.

It may be a separate program ("Blarg Super-OCR!") or built-in to the "suite" for the scanner ("UMAX duz-it-allz", "Epson bundle-of-joy").

 

[MrsWaggy]

Waggy is not around. I have no idea what you just said ( i am a complete idiot when it comes to coputers) can you explain it in engish or idiot terms for me.
Thanks

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: MrsWaggy
...can you explain it in engish or idiot terms for me...

You need to wait for Waggy to come home and ask him to do it.

 

[DaveSimmons]

No problem


The adobe file doesn't really have text in it (I'm guessing) it just has a picture like a camera snapshot.

If I'm wrong, in adobe you can just use the T button on the button bar to let you select text, then paste it into Wordpad or Word for editing.


Optical Character Recognition is software that looks at a graphic and changes the dots back into letters.

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It sees the above and says "oh, those dots must be an I"

You probably need to:
- put the sheet of paper on the scanner,
-run the scanner program to copy the paper into dots / pixelas
- in the scanner program, it might have a built in feature to "Save as Text" or "Save as Word" or "Convert to Text" or "Convert to Word"


... or just wait for Waggy

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: MrsWaggy
Waggy scanned a document into adobe for me but i need to put it into word so I can make some changes to it. He can not remember how.

who gave you permission to get out of the kitchen? get back there and make me a sammwich!

 

[EagleKeeper]

As Dave stated:

Scanned documents are of dots.
The Optical Caharacter Recognition programs attempts to take groups of dots and translate it into letters. This is exactly the way your eyes and brain works.

Depending on the algorithms within the OCR program and the quality of the scan, you can get good text translation or lousy. Most any OCR program will require you to then clean up the output text.

Some will also allow you to train them on the fly. A character pattern will be displayed that is can not recognize and the user will be asked to identifiy what character it is.



PS:

Waggy should not use alter egos to ask questions.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
As Dave stated:

Scanned documents are of dots.
The Optical Caharacter Recognition programs attempts to take groups of dots and translate it into letters. This is exactly the way your eyes and brain works.

Depending on the algorithms within the OCR program and the quality of the scan, you can get good text translation or lousy. Most any OCR program will require you to then clean up the output text.

Some will also allow you to train them on the fly. A character pattern will be displayed that is can not recognize and the user will be asked to identifiy what character it is.



PS:

Waggy should not use alter egos to ask questions.

heh its not me.

she also posted in YAGT where she is a semi-reg.

i have no problem saying i idiot and dont know somethin =

 

[MrsWaggy]

Thank you for all of your help. I finally figured out what to do. Ok waggy got home and figured it out.