How do i copy text from a book from a scanner and then copy that text into a word document?

[TheLizardMan]

I have some old books that I want to make backups of. How would i copy the text with a scanner so that i can get the raw text from them? Do I need a ocr program? if so is that all i need and what one is the best?

 

[ubersam]

I use OmniPage at work. Scan, OCR & save as a Word document or as a text file. It's o.k., although if an ocr'd image is saved as a Word doc, the texts are in text boxes.

[edit: shouldn't this thread be in "software"?]

 

[Mavrick007]

Xerox Textbridge Pro is a good OCR package as well. All you need is some OCR software and it will copy the text so you can use it in a document.

 

[spanky]

i've heard that omnipage is pretty good a well.