How do I edit text of a scanned document?

[Guest]

I have scanned a document and it appears in word. Now I need to edit some of
the text. Does anyone know how?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you've scanned the text as a picture, you have to OCR it to make it
editable. Your scanner probably came with an OCR app such as IRIS,
TextBridge, or OmniPage.

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[Guest]

Suzanne
I used OCR to scan a document to Word format. The problem I face now is that
all the text appear in little "text boxes" which makes it difficult for me to
edit. Is there any way I can prenvent the text in the many little text boxes.
Thanks
Anup

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There's a good chance your text boxes are actually frames. If so, you can
Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q to remove them (though be aware that since the frames are in
the order of the paragraphs they're anchored to, the result may be
higgledy-piggledy order. If they're really text boxes, then you can convert
them to frames and then remove them.

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Words into Type
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[Graham Mayor]

This is one of the limitations of poor OCR software - it makes a dog's
breakfast of the formatting. You would be better scanning it to a plain text
file which cannot contain text boxes, and format the document yourself.

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[Guest]

Graham,

I am experiencing the same problem (scanned documents sent to Word 2003
appear in Word with frames around each paragraph). Your CTL+A, then CTL+Q
really helped. Tell me, what is OCR software?

 

[Guest]

Graham,

I am experiencing the same problem (scanned documents sent to Word 2003
appear in Word with frames around each paragraph). Your CTL+A, then CTL+Q
really helped. Tell me, what is OCR software? I am using an HP Scanjet
Scanner 3970. MY HP Scanner (Smart Scan) never did this.

 

[Graham Mayor]

OCR - Optical Character Reading ie the software that turns an image to
editable text.

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