from scanner to word processor.. pwede?

[pal]

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mga bro ngutana ta ko kung naa bai software nga ang imo e scan nga document kay econvert nya into a word document? a friend told me bout it pero wa pako kita.. is it in the software or in the scanner?

[makoyvelasco]

software na. i also heard about this but really never knew one

[elmonitis]

Hint: Google for OCR (optical character recognition) software.

[janhenz]

I don't know sa mga daan na scanner, pero sa mga bag-o apil nana nga software/feature.
I'm using a Lexmark btw.
Simply send the scanned image to an Office application of your choice and then edit.
In fact mao ni ako gibuhat krn aron magduka ko kay 130am na...
[img width=500 height=360]http://i8.tinypic.com/6bjfgo0.jpg[/img]

[makoyvelasco]

I'm using a Lexmark btw.

pwede diay directly from scanner? unsa nga model imong gamit? im using X1100 series 4-in-1 sa lexmark. X1150 to be exact. i'll take note of that.
thanks.

[elmonitis]

I haven't used OCR software for years. The last time I got to use it was around 6 years ago, using my uncle's laptop and scanner. I think the OCR software installed on his laptop was ABBYY FineReader OCR.

Anyway, what I used to do was scan a page-full of text (works very well if your page is only text and the letters are clearly printed), tell the program to recognize the characters, and then save the results in either plain text format, DOC, or RTF.

I've also tried scanning a page-full of text, saved the image as a JPG or BMP, then have ABBYY FineReader recognize the characters, then save the results to TXT, DOC, or RTF.

Try checking out the features of the OCR software that you're using. Basta, the basic thing that OCR software does is to recognize the alphanumeric characters from an image (either directly from scanner or from a file on disk).

[louie007]

i think most scanners nowadays do include such software, but it's not that reliable when it comes to word recognition. you'll most of the time run into wrongly spelled letters or words encrypted by mistake.

[elmonitis]

That's true.  Most scanners come bundled with OCR software.

IMHO, the success rate of word recognition by the OCR software depends greatly on the quality of the original source.  If you're scanning a mimeographed letter for recognition by OCR software, chances are that the software will miss recognizing many letters correctly.  Smudge and fuzz on the source image also counts as a big factor, you know.

Think of OCR software as the human eye.  When we read from a text source that's smudgy or fuzzy, we find it difficult to recognize the letters correctly, and, thus, making correct reading of the text difficult.  It's the same thing when our eyes have problems.  Same thing for OCR.

What I do find annoying about OCR software, though (at least on the ABBYY FineReader version that I used long ago), is that it "reads" the letters by horizontally by lines.  When it reaches the end of the line, it forces a linebreak.  So, I ended up having to delete the forced linebreaks so they'll align properly at the right margin using force justified.

As for getting a misspelled word or two, I think that's normal.  Can't be perfect all the time, you know.

*CHEERS*  (OCR is much better than having to retype a very long document.)

[techwizz]

For me the best process is have the document scanned and have the output in PDF (Adobe acrobat) format. Next is open the document in Adobe format and click the Text tool, then, they will be highlighted. Copy them and paste them in a word processing software, then, there you have the text format already of your scanned document. Before anything else, I guess you will be required to have your Adobe Acrobat in Distiller version or professional version. Hope that helps.

[ares623]

yeah, OCR is one of the coolest thing about computers..