Can I Somehow load a Spread Sheet thru a Scanner

[murashid]

Hi,
I am wondering if you guys may be aware of a hardware or a softwar
product that can provide me the capability to put scanned table dat
in
a spread sheet format. For example, I make a Xerox copy of a data tabl
from a book and now I scan it with a scanner. Now an option for me t
manually enter that data numbers into spread sheet. So, my question t
you is if you may have a software that can actually save me the manua
typing of that data into a spread sheet format. Please let me know; an
help is appreciated. Thanks in advance !!! Please email me a
(e-mail address removed), if you may have any hints.
Thanks.
Mushara

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Murashid,

The OCR component of scanning software can save the scanned file in several
file formats. I don't know if any will save in xls format, but I know at
least some can save in Word format (.doc). You could then paste into a
sheet from Word or WordPad. Or save in delimited text, if that's supported,
and paste from NotePad.

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Murashid,

On second thought, if the software can save in delimited text format, open
it directly in Excel.

 

[Tushar Mehta]

Remember to check the responses to the multipost in .excel,
..excel.charting, .excel.misc, .excel.newusers, .excel.programming, and
..excel.worksheet.functions. And, that's only the NGs I checked.

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