editable text file problem

[RB]

Why do scanners/OCR programs not handle tables very well when saving to
editable text? They all seem to be afflicted with this malady.

Trying to get an editable table of colums of data from a scanned page has
turned out to be mission impossible.

Anyone know a simple way around this?

 

[CSM1]

Why do scanners/OCR programs not handle tables very well when saving to
editable text? They all seem to be afflicted with this malady.

Trying to get an editable table of colums of data from a scanned page has
turned out to be mission impossible.

Anyone know a simple way around this?

It really depends on the quality of the OCR program.
Bundled OCR programs with scanners are not as good as a commercial program.

Omnipage 15 is pretty good with tables in the true page view.
You may have to manually zone for the tables to be sure.
http://www.nuance.com/omnipage/