SAVING A FILE

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I SCANED A LETTER HEAD INTO MY COMPUTER AND TRY TO CHANGE
TO TEXT. BUT, THE COMPUTER WOULD NOT LET ME. WHAT SHOULD
I BE SAVING IT AS? I HAVE A COMPAC AND A HP ALL INONE
SCAN. I'M RUNNING WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION. I HAVE TRIED
TO SAVE IT IN ADOBE 6.0? PLEASE HELP ME?/
 
|I SCANED A LETTER HEAD INTO MY COMPUTER AND TRY TO CHANGE
| TO TEXT. BUT, THE COMPUTER WOULD NOT LET ME. WHAT SHOULD
| I BE SAVING IT AS? I HAVE A COMPAC AND A HP ALL INONE
| SCAN. I'M RUNNING WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION. I HAVE TRIED
| TO SAVE IT IN ADOBE 6.0? PLEASE HELP ME?/
|

When you scan a document you create an image. Images are not text editable.
In order to make it a text editable document you will need to process it
with OCR (optical character recognition) software. Many Scanner software
packages include some rudimentary OCR software, consult your scanners
documentation. More complete third party packages are available.

Scansoft's Omnipage is a good example. http://www.scansoft.com/omnipage/

Google will turn up many more.

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