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Subject: Re: how to import scanned page into Open Office and edit it.
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:20:02 -0800
From: Robert Carney
To: Dave Barton
Just tried Abby FineReadr 9.0 with Windows 10 and Open Office 4.1.2.
Seems to work fine. Problem solved.
On Thu
Original Message
From: M Henri Day
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:09:00 +0100
> 2016-02-24 0:19 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney :
>
>> I have a form that has blanks for me to fill in. I would like to scan the
>> form, import it into Open Office and fill in the blanks. What do I need to
>>
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:51:02 +
Brian Barker wrote:
> At 09:18 25/02/2016 +0100, M Henri Day wrote:
> >2016-02-25 1:21 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney:
> >>I tried Henri's suggestion to scan the form to a PDF and edit that
> >>in Open Office. Maybe I don't know how to open a PDF file in Open
> >>Off
2016-02-25 9:51 GMT+01:00 Brian Barker :
> At 09:18 25/02/2016 +0100, M Henri Day wrote:
>
>> 2016-02-25 1:21 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney:
>>
>>> I tried Henri's suggestion to scan the form to a PDF and edit that in
>>> Open Office. Maybe I don't know how to open a PDF file in Open Office
>>> because
At 09:18 25/02/2016 +0100, M Henri Day wrote:
2016-02-25 1:21 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney:
I tried Henri's suggestion to scan the form to a PDF and edit that
in Open Office. Maybe I don't know how to open a PDF file in Open
Office because every time I try to open the file, Open Office 4.1.2
crashe
2016-02-25 1:21 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney :
> I tried Henri's suggestion to scan the form to a PDF and edit that in Open
> Office. Maybe I don't know how to open a PDF file in Open Office because
> every time I try to open the file, Open Office 4.1.2 crashes. I tried
> clicking on "open" and selec
Thanks Henri
I will try that.
On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, M Henri Day wrote:
> 2016-02-24 0:19 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney >:
>
>> I have a form that has blanks for me to fill in. I would like to scan the
>> form, import it into Open Office and fill in the blanks. What do I need
>> to
>> do
2016-02-24 0:19 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney :
> I have a form that has blanks for me to fill in. I would like to scan the
> form, import it into Open Office and fill in the blanks. What do I need to
> do? Any help appreciated.
>
> --
> Robert L. Carney
> rlcarney5...@gmail.com
​Robert, doesn't yo
Hi Robert,
Take a look at FreeOCR. It will convert it to text but I do not
recommend this. The way I do it is use FreeOCR to make a PDF and
then I use my old version (6.0) Adobe Acrobat to fill out the
form. There are other PDF programs that will do this as well,
just use Startpage.com (a pri
Thanks, Brian.
I did some research via Google search. Apparently there exist several
software items that claim to be able to do this. I have not tried any of
them. I was even told that OneNote that comes with Microsoft Office would
do it. Don't have office. The version of OneNote that comes with Wi
At 15:19 23/02/2016 -0800, Robert Carney wrote:
I have a form that has blanks for me to fill in. I would like to
scan the form, import it into Open Office and fill in the blanks.
If you scan a hard copy, you have a picture of the document and not
anything which can be edited as text. You have
I have a form that has blanks for me to fill in. I would like to scan the
form, import it into Open Office and fill in the blanks. What do I need to
do? Any help appreciated.
--
Robert L. Carney
rlcarney5...@gmail.com
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