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    Need Free program that allows to edit text on scanned doc.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by alto, Apr 21, 2010.

  1. alto

    alto Notebook Geek

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    Hi there.
    I need this program to scan and fill applications or to edit text to some documents.Is it possible?


    Thanx.
     
    alto, Apr 21, 2010
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Not a lot of good OCR software out there, much less free.

    A scanner works just like a camera... imagine taking a picture of a document with your camera. Would you imagine you could just edit the text on that picture?

    The only thing you may be able to do is either use an image editing program to fill out the forms. As for editing the text, you'll need optical character recognition software, and I'm not aware of any good software for free that will be less work than retyping/recreating the document.
     
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  3. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    I use Omnipage, it has a good OCR software. Im not sure if thats free though
     
    flipfire, Apr 21, 2010
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  4. doctorsrk

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    It comes free with Hp printer/scanners
     
    doctorsrk, Apr 21, 2010
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    gerryf19, Apr 21, 2010
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    what do you really want to do?
     
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    tornbacchus GO leafs.. Wait, Nevermid

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    If you has microsoft office, onenote has that function, but it doesn't work that well. Give it a try and it might work for you.
     
    tornbacchus, Apr 21, 2010
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  8. alto

    alto Notebook Geek

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    I want to edit text on scanned documents or fill out scanned applications.I´ve already tried Omnipage and simpleocr without getting good results.The texts got very scattered and broken.


    Thanx.
     
    alto, Apr 22, 2010
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  9. gerryf19

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    If you are not getting good results with Omnipage, you are not going to get good results. That is about the best one out there. Your documents must be very complicated or your scanner is not a good scanner.
     
    gerryf19, Apr 22, 2010
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    Tornbacchus, can you give us some detail as to how you would do it in OneNote? I have Office, and have never used OneNote, but would like to see how it could mimic an OCR-like function.
     
    Imperfect1, Apr 22, 2010
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