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Guest
If I scan a paper into a file and it saves it as a JPEG, is there a way to
edit the actual text in the file??
Thanks!
edit the actual text in the file??
Thanks!
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Bob I
No, you would need OCR software to convert to editable text.
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Ken Blake
Judy said:If I scan a paper into a file and it saves it as a JPEG, is there a
way to edit the actual text in the file??
Yes, but it requires special software. The jpeg is a picture of the text,
not the text itself. To edit, you need to turn it into a text file, and that
requires Optical Character Recognition (usually called OCR) software.
OCR software seldom works perfectly, but depending on the font of the
original, the condition of the .original paper, and the particular software
you use, you can often get accuracy in the high 90% range.
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Guest
Thank you very much! I appreciate it.
Bob I said:No, you would need OCR software to convert to editable text.
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Guest
Thanks! I noticed online when I did a search there are listings for OCR
software for free. Have any idea if these are reputable???
software for free. Have any idea if these are reputable???
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Ken Blake
Judy said:Thanks! I noticed online when I did a search there are listings for
OCR software for free. Have any idea if these are reputable???
In my experience, good OCR software isn't free, and is usually moderately
expensive. I personally use OmiPage, and have no experience with any free
OCR program.
But if you can find a free one, it doesn't hurt to try it.
Also must scanners come with a starter version of some OCR program.
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Box134
If I scan a paper into a file and it saves it as a JPEG, is there a way to
edit the actual text in the file??
Thanks!
Quite often your scanner software contains built-in OCR capability. What
scanner do you have?
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David E. Ross
Judy said:If I scan a paper into a file and it saves it as a JPEG, is there a way to
edit the actual text in the file??
Thanks!
You can use MS's Paint. However, for any extensive amount of editing,
it will be quite tedious.
Almost all scanners (likely including yours) come with a disc containing
drivers and OCR software.
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