Re: scanned documents

From: Mikey (hoho_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/10/04


Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:44:37 -0400

I think you'll have to use some sort of OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
program to convert the print on your documents to editable text. Pagis Pro
is one I think (just as an example).

Mike

"betty and jessie" <betty and jessie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:B5CF4977-AF73-4B24-AC36-550A33C0AB2B@microsoft.com...
> we just got our replacement e-machine and it works really well, but we
lost
> some documents that were not backed up-rather than retype them, we had a
> friend scan them and then he e-mailed them to us-the problem is, they came
> thru as jpeg and windows paint documents-the jpeg has 5000+kb and takes
> forever to download on this machine-how can I convert it to a text
document
> with a simple line drawing???(other than the clip art picture at the
header
> it is an extremely simple documnet)
> any feedback would be appreciated-thanks-jessie and betty tallahassee, fl



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