I am looking for some software that after I scan a page I can then make alterations to the scan.
Lets say I have a table with rows and columns and I want to put spaces between the columns and rows any software that will do that?
JOHN NOLTON
JOHN NOLTON, post: 372513, member: 225 wrote: I am looking for some software that after I scan a page I can then make alterations to the scan.
Lets say I have a table with rows and columns and I want to put spaces between the columns and rows any software that will do that?
JOHN NOLTON
John:
You're looking for OCR software (Optical Character Recognition). It might depend on the scanner you're using, but most packages today support any reasonably recent scanner that uses the industry standard TWAIN drivers.
See here for some comparisons:
http://ocr-software-review.toptenreviews.com
The only one on this list I've ever used is Acrobat Pro. Most all of them work with MS Office (including Excel).
rfc, thank you very much for the help.
JOHN NOLTON
John,
I use ABBYY Finereader. The latest is Ver. 12 for around $170. They may have a "standard" version for less.
It allows you to read in PDFs, TIFFs, JPEGs, etc. It processes the image file into text, allows you to check for misspellings and or odd characters and then save to file. I usually save it to Word or Excel files. So, if you have columnar data, it will recreate the columns in an Excel file.
Cheers,
Gene
There are several websites that will convert your pdf to text, for free. The one I linked above works pretty well for me, but just one page at a time.
