On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 10:03 -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Anyone know of software that would allow me to scan a document into as
> OpenOffice or text format? I can save as PDF fine but don't know of a
> way to scan a document I can work with.
Carl,
OCR works best on simple documents with clean type like a letter. More
complicated layouts with fancy type faces, sidebars, etc. will cause
problems.
If you don't need to edit the text just scanning as a 150dpi PNG or JPG
will give you screen readable text.
Dennisk
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