Paul, you could be correct in your analysis. In that case they should
follow your advice which is more apt than mine.
Cheers...
Doug
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message | From the OP it doesn't sound like there are original eletronic files
to
| send. I sounds like the desired document's eletronic copies have been
lost,
| but hardcopies exist on paper which the friend is scanning and
emailing
| over.
|
| If you just need a copy of the document and you don't care about being
able
| to edit them, then you could just get them burned to CD and skip the
| emailing step. Otherwise your friend will need some OCR software
which will
| take a scanned image and convert it to text which can be edited. The
text
| will be MUCH smaller than the image files. Have your friend check to
see if
| any such software came with their scanner. One of the more popular
packages
| that I have seen is called TextBridge.
|
| If your friend doesn't have an OCR package, do a Google search for
| SimpleOCR. It's a freeware OCR application that works pretty well but
isn't
| the most rebust application.
|
| After the image is OCR'd you will want to run a spellcheck on it to
clean up
| the document. OCR is accurate but recongitions errors are common
depending
| on the quality of the pages being scanned. This is still alot faster
than
| retyping everything though.
|
| Good luck.
|
|
| | > Further to this: If your friend is using Windows XP, just have
him/her
| > right-click the desired file and there is a menu choice "Send to".
On
| > the sub-menu there is an entry for "mail recipient". This will
attach
| > the file to an Outlook Express 'NEW' message and all that your
friend
| > has to do is enter the address info either from the address book or
| > directly.
| >
| > Failing this: Refer to the 'HELP' in OExpress on how to handle
| > attachments.
| >
| > Doug
| > =================================
| >
| > | > | Get your friend to send them to you as a COPY of the original
| > documents
| > | as a text file or WORD file or whatever and attach them to your
| > e-mail.
| > | A lot less hassle than scanning and then OCR'ing them. I do this
all
| > of
| > | the time and it works well.
| > |
| > | Doug
| > | ==========================================
| > | "betty and jessie" <betty and (e-mail address removed)>
wrote
| > in
| > | message | > | | we just got our replacement e-machine and it works really well,
but
| > we
| > | lost
| > | | some documents that were not backed up-rather than retype them,
we
| > had
| > | a
| > | | friend scan them and then he e-mailed them to us-the problem is,
| > they
| > | came
| > | | thru as jpeg and windows paint documents-the jpeg has 5000+kb
and
| > | takes
| > | | forever to download on this machine-how can I convert it to a
text
| > | document
| > | | with a simple line drawing???(other than the clip art picture at
the
| > | header
| > | | it is an extremely simple documnet)
| > | | any feedback would be appreciated-thanks-jessie and betty
| > tallahassee,
| > | fl
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
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