The Microsoft Office Document Imaging which is included with recent versions
of Office (but not installed by default) is quite satisfactory for reading
text only.
As JoAnn says you should have some form of OCR software included in the
software package that came with your scanner, though I have been less
enthusiastic with the results from the OCR software included with scanners
of my acquaintance than is JoAnn. It could be that different software is
supplied in different regions.
If you want something better than this, then the best I have used by quitea
stretch is Finereaderhttp://
www.abbyy.com/, which has been pretty good from
at least version 5 and is currently at version 9.0 (though personally I am
using version 8).
There is no 'perfect' OCR. All will require some user involvement to get the
best results, particularly with complex document formatting, but on a simple
typed page, it can provide 99.9% accuracy - or better.
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Using Win XP & Word: I want to scan some text [typed page] to my
computer, thence to be copied to Word, so that I can then set the
page size, margins, etc. Can someone suggest an OCR program which
you have found to be satisfactory - appreciate it.-