Scanner to Excel

[Guest]

I would like to scan my receipts and import them into Excel, does anyone know
of a way to do that?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

hi
no way to do that. a scanned document is an image(picture) and excel can
display images in various picture formats but cannot read them as a document.

sorry.
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[Earl Kiosterud]

agrin,

If these are store receipts, it'll be a big task. Your scanner probably has OCR software,
but you'll have to manually pick the relevant data. Might be better to hand key it.

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Earl Kiosterud
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[Gord Dibben]

With a scanner and a really good OCR application you will get most of your data
scanned as a text file which you open in Excel.

My experience has been that somewhat less than 100% is the norm but could be my
OCR application is not that great.

I just tried a couple of receipts and they came out quite well.



Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Gord Dibben]

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With a good OCR application you can scan to a text file and open that in Excel.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[FSt1]

thanks gord.
outside of my expertice. I will look it to that.

thanks again
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