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Document Scanner

Topic started by sulmanqadir on 22 March 2009

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22 March 2009, 07:13 pm

Hi

I am after a document scanner for home/office use. I would like it to be compatible with my mac but i would consider using it with my windows machine if that is a cheaper option.

I want to know if it would be possible to scan a document and be able to edit it in Word? I know most document scanners can scan direct into PDF.

Thanks in advance

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22 March 2009, 08:35 pm

Any scanner I have had can use optical character recognition to scan the text into word, the problem is that it isn’t in the same format as the original document i.e. lines won’t end in the same place, not the same font style ect. So it means you have to spend ages reformatting it.

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1 May 2009, 03:21 pm

I don't know if this helps, but my scanner is a CanoscanLIDE model, and comes with it's own software AND optical character recognition. I don;t use OCR regularly, but when I do it seems to put documents into a good format. I use Windows, and Microsoft Office, so I couldn't say how it would work on another system, but if you have a choice of 2 systems, that would be the choice for me.

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