I believe that there are specific programs that are needed in order to be able to manipulate the document. I know at work we have used OmniPagePro which seemed to work for some and crashed others computers. Mine was one that it crashed on so they deleted the program.
I honestly don't know anything else but I am sure that others will have some suggestions for you.
If nothing comes up or you don't want to buy a program, I am more than willing to re-type the pages for you. You can always email me the scanned versions. As you may know, I type for a living so 20 pages is not that much and considering that I am not working right now, I have lots of time on my hands.
Anyways....just a suggestion, no obligations, hope you find a solution that works.
Take care
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I honestly don't know anything else but I am sure that others will have some suggestions for you.
If nothing comes up or you don't want to buy a program, I am more than willing to re-type the pages for you. You can always email me the scanned versions. As you may know, I type for a living so 20 pages is not that much and considering that I am not working right now, I have lots of time on my hands.
Anyways....just a suggestion, no obligations, hope you find a solution that works.Take care
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gooblax
MVP
As Halo says, you'll need OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software.
Here's someone's blog about how to do it and a couple of programs are recommended on there.
I just Googled "free OCR" to find these for Windows:
SimpleOCR or FreeOCR
(These are free to download. I haven't used either of them... so I have no idea if they're any good and can't vouch for the downloads.)
For Mac: I only had a quick search but could only find trial versions of programs.
Good luck and let us know how you go with it.
Here's someone's blog about how to do it and a couple of programs are recommended on there.
I just Googled "free OCR" to find these for Windows:
SimpleOCR or FreeOCR
(These are free to download. I haven't used either of them... so I have no idea if they're any good and can't vouch for the downloads.)
For Mac: I only had a quick search but could only find trial versions of programs.
Good luck and let us know how you go with it.
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Member
Hi Mari,
There is another way , a bit laborious ,if you have photoshop or an image processing program, scan the pages ,convert to Bitmap or Jpeg, erase the words and use the text tool to retype and replace each part edited , I just tried it and it works , however to have exactly the same look as the type written original would be a problem , due to the font differences . I would take Halo up on her kind offer.
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erratum
I meant to say 'erase the words or senteces you want to edit" , not all the words
There is another way , a bit laborious ,if you have photoshop or an image processing program, scan the pages ,convert to Bitmap or Jpeg, erase the words and use the text tool to retype and replace each part edited , I just tried it and it works , however to have exactly the same look as the type written original would be a problem , due to the font differences . I would take Halo up on her kind offer.
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erratum
I meant to say 'erase the words or senteces you want to edit" , not all the words
When you buy a scanner, there is usually an OCR included with the software package. It's the only way to accomplish the task you described.
Depending on the quality of type in the original there may be occasional errors in the recognition, but being a computer, the errors are usually consistent, so a spellchecker can pick them up.
Depending on the quality of type in the original there may be occasional errors in the recognition, but being a computer, the errors are usually consistent, so a spellchecker can pick them up.
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