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 Windows 10 will not.
Robert On Tuesday, February 23, 2016, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > 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 a picture of the text rather > than the text itself. You could use optical character recognition on the > image to extract the text, which would then need careful correction. But > you would then anyway have just the text and would have to reformat > everything, perhaps adding boxes, colours, shading, or whatever. So a bit > of a non-starter. > > What do I need to do? >> > > What you can do is create a new drawing (Draw) document in OpenOffice, > insert your scanned image as a "picture", and then overlay text boxes in > appropriate places into which to enter your text. It's fiddly, but it works. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Robert L. Carney rlcarney5...@gmail.com
