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10-06-2008, 08:17 PM
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College Prospect
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: San Diego, CA
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Technology Question
I write an informal technology guide for the teachers at my school in which I field questions and provide answers in a newsletter. Here is one I am not sure the answer to, but I'm thinking it's a "no."
"I have a handful of documents that are hard-copy only, no electronic copy, and no time to recreate the hard copy. I've been scanning them at home, but I have to open these documents in Microsoft Picture Manager, and I can't manipulate the document like a regular Word document. Is there a way to scan and then manipulate/change the document? I hope I'm making sense. Feel free to dismiss this if you don't have the time to mess with it!" Thanks folks!
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10-06-2008, 08:26 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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Use scanning software with OCR(optical character recognition). Doesn't work 100%, depends on the complexity of the document.
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10-06-2008, 08:27 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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But don't use freeware OCR, not one of them works (i.e., you get what you pay for in this case, unlike other freeware).
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10-06-2008, 08:28 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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Yep, OCR is not a black and white technology. It's reads and translates the image, some software does that better than others. I don't have enough experience to make recommendations.
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10-06-2008, 08:47 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Backwoods, SC
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Ive had some success with OCR and .pdf files but editing is tough.
Even if you get it searchable with OCR getting it editable I.E. a word document....would be news to mee (I wouldd be very interested if you accomplish this) |
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