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From: "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [users] TEXT EDITING (Scanning)
On 08/04/2008 22:53, Ron & Suzanne Reising wrote:
I AM USING VERSION 2.4 OF OPEN OFFICE. HOW DO I SCAN A DOCUMENT SO
THA T I CAN EDIT THE TEXT. THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE.
SUZ
You need a type of software called OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
Such software almost certainly came on a CD that came with your scanner.
"Readiris", "Textbridge" and "Omnipage" are popular examples of such
software. One of them may well be what you have. Whatever you have, use it
to scan and convert to an RTF (Rich Text Format) file and then open the
file with OpenOffice. Unfortunately I don't know of any OCR software that
will convert to OpenOffice format.
Also, please don't send e-mails in ALL UPPER CASE. It's considered to be
shouting and therefore rude. Instead, if you need to, please use a larger
font.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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