Is it possible to scan a completed questionaire form?

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I'm looking for a way (if there is one) to scan an existing questionaire form
and get the replies to populate already existing table fields. Is it
possible?
 
Jayceejay said:
I'm looking for a way (if there is one) to scan an existing questionaire
form
and get the replies to populate already existing table fields. Is it
possible?
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Scanners create images (pictures) of documents. To translate the resulting
image into something that could be parsed and imported into fields in a
table, you'd need to use OCR software (Optical Character Recognition), which
would create a text file from the image. The results tend to be imperfect,
with some manual correction required. Depending on the structure of the
resulting text file, you may be able to parse it and import it into your
database. It's likely to be a non-trivial project.
 
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