Donna, Most scanners these days come with basic Optical Character Reader (OCR) software. Generally it does a very good job of converting scanned text from a page, back into editable text and corresponding images of things that can't be converted (for instance signatures or logos in letterhead). Once you have OCR'ed the document, you can add to it and then "print" it back out to a PDF file. (For which you'll need something like Adobe Acrobat Professional or even just one of the freeware software's around that do this sort of thing)... so the steps would be:
1) Scan the document 2) OCR it to turn it into editable text (Many scanners do this in one step) 3) Make changes 4) Print to PDF file Hope this helps -----Original Message----- From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Scan Docs to Edit you need to put text on top of the scanned image? Is Photoshop available? On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:41:11 -0600, Donna French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, sorry for the OT post, but I'm trying to help a lawyer friend of > mine and not real sure how to tackle this. I need to scan a document > then allow them to enter text either on top of the scan, or scan in as > a PDF or similar? > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > TIA, > Donna > > -- > ------------------------ > Donna French > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Blog: http://dgfrench.blogspot.com > Site: http://www.dgfrenchdesigns.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:185591 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
