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Can I Edit scanned docs?

How can I edit my scanned pdf. from MSWord?

  • I scanned a document to Word and gave it a pdf. so I could write to and edit the text. When I viewed the doc in Word, and attempted to modify,edit, or write to it, a "format picture" dialog box appeared. I could not edit my doc because it was seen as a picture by Word. How can I edit and modify my doc.? I used an on-line converter (pdf to doc), but that failed as well. Thankyou

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    You need an OCR (Optical Charater Recognition). The scan is currently recognized as an image and not text. Try http://www.simpleocr.com/ Adobe Acrobat also does OCR... and some of the software that comes with scanners.

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the problem is when you scanned it.. it was scanned as a picture. What you needed was OCR software... which would scan the document and convert it to text. Most OCR software will still be able to read the scanned file and convert it still... or just rescan using OCR software Here is a freeware version: http://www.simpleocr.com/

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Wrold's _best_ OCR is FineReader http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_ocr/

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