Once I scan a typewritten page how can I edit in Word

[Stuart J Mazzoli]

I place a typewritten page on the scanner. I scan it comes up on the screen
modified by the OCR software..It can be edited then how do I go about placing
it in a folder o file or whatever...I have over 5000 pages to do.

 

[Jay Freedman]

The answer to your question must come from whatever software you're
using to do the OCR recognition. Usually it will have a "save as" item
on the File menu, or a setting in the OCR preferences to save
automatically as a Word document. Check the OCR program's Help file.

As an aside, for a 5000-page project, it would make sense to buy or
rent a scanner that has an automatic page feeder.

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On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:44:02 -0800, Stuart J Mazzoli <Stuart J

 

[Graham Mayor]

I don't envy you that task. OCR software is at its best (Finereader) an
application that requires a lot of work to accurately reproduce the scanned
work. You need to experiment on one or two pages before progressing further.
Like Jay, I would recommend that you invest in the rental of a fast scanner
with auto-page feeder or this job will take forever.

OCR software will output to a variety of formats - the choice of which
depends on the document layout and what you are trying to achieve. It is
often simpler to output to a plain text file and edit that than to output to
a Word format document, but with 5000 pages, all bets are off.


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