for anyone who has ever used a scanner

[Corporate Thug]

if it possible to scan a page out of my text book and convert it to a .doc?

 

[God On Alcohol]

i think u mean "used" not "sued"

 

I sued a printer once and lost.

 

[RbSX]

I had to when I had to revise a CCDC contract over the summer.

Incredibly unreliable.

 

[Corporate Thug]

yes, i meant used

 

[InverseOfNeo]

How can you sue a scanner???

 

[hjo3]

Yes, but you'll have to isolate the pictures if there are any and use an OCR program to convert the text, then format it manually probably.

 

[sixone]

Not likely. You'll need an OCR program, and I have yet to see one that works well. Timewise, you'd probably be better off typing it in manually.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: hjo3
Yes, but you'll have to isolate the pictures if there are any and use an OCR program to convert the text, then format it manually probably.

recommendation for a OCR prog? there are no pictures

 

[GroundZero]

try scanning it into a pdf (evil) or rtf (not so evil)

 

[LostWanderer]

Yea, I've tried it. Quality depends on the font and how clean the scan is and all that. What your talking about is OCR (optical character recognition). Not sure what the best software is, but whatever scanner software you have look for OCR stuff. Hopefully this gets you at least pointed in the right general direction. Good luck.

Edit - Dang - 5 posts while I was typing...