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Dan said:
I have scanned,e.g., a recipe into Windows XP. Now I need
to edit that recipe.............is this possible?
When you use a scanner, the result is a picture. Even if what you
scanned is text, the result is a picture of the text, not the
text itself. So basically, it's not in a form that can be edited
by a word processor.
To turn your picture into actual text that can edited in a word
processer, you need to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
software on it. There are a number of such products available,
and several of them do a fairly good job. Note however, that none
of these products work perfectly, and a small error rate is
normal. For that reason you have to proofread the results
carefully.
The OCR product I personally use is OmniPage 11.
