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I have a bunch of documents that I need to import into a computer for editing. They are policies and procedures manuals and instead of paying a temp to type them into a word processing program, I'd like to scan them in, then have some software convert the scanned documents to a MS Word or WordPerfect document so I can make changes. I have a scanner, but don't have the character-recognition software to convert them to a program. Do any of you know of software which will do this for me?

Thanks in advance.

Originally posted by HighLordDave
I have a bunch of documents that I need to import into a computer for editing. They are policies and procedures manuals and instead of paying a temp to type them into a word processing program, I'd like to scan them in, then have some software convert the scanned documents to a MS Word or WordPerfect document so I can make changes. I have a scanner, but don't have the character-recognition software to convert them to a program. Do any of you know of software which will do this for me?

Thanks in advance.

I would have assumed that your scanner came with some kind of software on a CD, i will try to find you a freeware of some kind

The software that came with it was mostly photo editing and the scanner drivers. None of it had optical character recognition capability.

Omnipage Pro is a very good program for OCR. As Mr Sleep said, most scanners come with some form of OCR software, usually either Omnipage LE or Textbridge.