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Convert Picture to text

Anonymous
2011-03-06T20:35:21+00:00

I have Office 2010.  I scan in some information on a regular basis using a scanning program provided by Epson.  Most of the information is transferred to WORD, but some is not rather it is scanned as a picture.  How can I transfer the information from the picture to a text file?  Thank You

Bruce Micales

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-03-07T14:48:32+00:00

    Thank you for your reply.  However it does not answer the question.  As I stated it was MOST OF THE TIME the scanned information is converted and can be placed into a WORD docment.  However, SOMETIMES the scanned information is not read by the scanner as a text and ends up in a picture file.  I was asking if WORD could copy this information and then place this information as text into a document.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-06T20:54:46+00:00

    You need OCR (optical character recognition) software. OCR examines a picture and converts it into text... sometimes with great accuracy, other times with accuracy that's not so great. Something very likely came with your Epson printer. Check to see what was installed when you set the printer up. If you didn't install the entire suite, then check the CD that came with the printer. Or, visit Epson's website and see if there's something Epson users can download.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-03-07T05:29:32+00:00

    2010 comes with OCR tool built into OneNote:

    1.1  OCR - MS Document Imaging / Onenote 2010

    Using Microsoft Office Document Imaging in Office 2010

    http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/91749.aspx

    1.1  OCR- FreeOCR

    Take a look at this article about a free open source OCR tool call FreeOCR V3: http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips-pr.php/7225

    I've only played with it for a few minutes, but for the most part I like what it does.

    It is a fairly simple OCR program compared to many. It extracts text. It doesn't worry about formatting or graphics, just extracts text only. 1 page at a time. It works better if you select blocks around graphics.

    It is slow, but accurate when you keep it away from graphical elements.

    1.2  OCR - LibreOffice - Import PDFs with ease

    In previous iterations of OpenOffice, the PDF import was a kludge at best. Although LibreOffice handles the importing of PDFs the same way (imports them as LibreOffice Draw documents), the results are far better. Once you have imported your PDF (you do so by using the Open dialog), you can edit text, images, and layouts by clicking and dragging (for images/layout) or double-clicking a line of text to edit. (You can edit only a single line of text at a time.) When you finish editing your PDF, don’t save the document — instead, export it as a PDF by clicking File | Export as PDF.

    1.3  Scanning Image into Word 2007/2010

    http://www.gmayor.com/scan_into_word_2007.htm

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