WHAT PROGRAM AND FILE TYPE DO I USE

[Guest]

-- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I
NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I USE
TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE CAN
HELP ME PLEASE.

sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me once it
was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were shouting .. so i am
not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to anyone who takes offence this was
not in tensional
mar

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

To scan a document is to take a picture of it. You generally do this from
within an image editing program, or you press a button and the scanner
automatically sends it to some pre-defined application for use. You can't
edit text in a scanned document unless you first use Optical Character
Recognition (OCR ) software to convert it back to text. You can usually scan
directly into an OCR application, just like you can scan into an image
editing application.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

-- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO
WHAT I NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT
PROGRAM DO I USE TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE
EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME PLEASE.

sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me
once it was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were
shouting .. so i am not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to
anyone who takes offence this was not in tensional
mar

There is no 'universal file that everyone can edit'..
What programs do you have that could edit a file you scan...
Common scanned file types: JPG, TIFF, PDF...

MSPAINT could edit the first two.
You'd know if you had a program installed that could edit PDFs.

 

[Phil]

Hi mar
If your scanner will let you choose scan to "ORC" like my Epson 1660, then you can choose word pad,
note pad or word. After that you can edit and save or print.

 

[Ken Blake]

-- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I
NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I
USE
TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE
CAN
HELP ME PLEASE.

sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me once it
was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were shouting .. so i
am
not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to anyone who takes offence this
was
not in tensional

It's not that "some people take this as if [you] were shouting," it's that
it *feels* like you're shouting. It's also very difficult to read, so we
would all appreciate it if you were very careful not to do it in the future.

When you scan a document (or anything else), you end up with a graphic
image--essentially a picture of the document. If that document had words
printed on it, what you get is a picture of the words, not the words
themselves. So the result is *not* editable in a word processing program.

You can however, turn that picture into editable text by processing it with
an Optical Character Recognition (usually called OCR) program. Such a
program looks at the picture, recognizes the letters in it, and produces a
normal editable text file as output. There are a number of such programs you
can buy, and a light version of one of them may have come with your scanner.

Note that none of these programs is perfect, and you need to proofread what
it creates carefully. How accurate their result is depends on the program
you use, the quality and cleanliness of the document you're scanning, and
the typeface you start with.

 

[C.Joseph Drayton]

-- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I
NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I USE
TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE CAN
HELP ME PLEASE.

sorry i just relaised i have typed in cap locks.. someone told me once it
was rude to do this as somepeople take this as if i were shouting .. so i am
not shouting iam only asking.. so sorry to anyone who takes offence this was
not in tensional
mar

There is a FreeWare program called FillOutAForm (By Doug
Cox) that will take a BMP and allow you to place and edit
fields on a scanned form. It saves the data as a .DTA file.

Most scanners default to TIFF or PDF, either of which can
then be converted to BMP.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

"A promise is nothing more than an attempt,
to respond to an unreasonable request."

 

[Tim Slattery]

-- PLEASE CAN ANYONE OFFER ASSISTANCE I WANT TO SCAN A DOCUMENT SO WHAT I
NEED TO NO IS WHAT TYPE OF FILE I SHOULD SAVE IT AS AND WHAT PROGRAM DO I USE
TO OPEN IT UP, I WANT THIS SCANNED DOCUMENT TO BE EDITABLE SO IF ANYONE CAN
HELP ME PLEASE.

Your scanner will produce an image file, probably a jpeg. It sounds
like you want a text file or word file, to do that you'll have to run
the image file through an OCR (Optical Character Reader) program.
Google for OCR, there are lots of choices.