Scanning paper into text files

JohnRoss · 1 Feb 2006 at 20:17

Ive got some files on paper which i need to scan in as txt files on my pc, anyone reccomend some software which will allow me to do this ?

any help is much appreciated

JohnRoss · 1 Feb 2006 at 21:00

alritey ive managed to get the files i need as txt files saved as .bmps, now all i need to do is change the txt from the scanned bitmaps into word documents....

>:|sh4d0w|:< · 1 Feb 2006 at 21:07

OCR Programs are what your are after. Ive used ABBYY Finereader and Xerox Textbridge Pro in the past, both have done the job.

vince3 · 1 Feb 2006 at 22:28

Simple OCR isn't bad and it's free http://www.simpleocr.com/ but I think you'll need to scan to a JPG file first to use it.
Ignore the Profile message when it starts and just click Select.

I'm thinking of trying a free copy of ReadIris v7 that was on a mag cover disk recently; maybe a free version can be downloaded.

Nismo · 2 Feb 2006 at 10:41

We use Omnipage Pro 14 here at work, seems to always do a decent job even with documents that have symbols and mathematical formulas on, last time I knew it was pretty expensive though for the Pro version.

Anyway, some sort of OCR program is what your after.

JohnRoss · 3 Feb 2006 at 14:45

cheers lads got it sorted with abby fine reader 7