[Pamlicofootball]

I am not a good computer geek amd I have difficulty in getting advice that is understandable.I have an HP office jet 6500 printer and need to know a good OCR software for my printer. I am in education and I create many documents using Microsoft word.(forms,charts, test) I would love to scan these documents into my computer, retrieve it later and edit it with new data.The OCR software that comes with the printer changes the numbers and form design to unreadable mush when I scan to Microsoft word.I can scan to PDF document and it turns out perfect, but I can not edit the PDF document. Any advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
thank,
Pamlico

[smax013]

Pamlicofootball, on 15 February 2010 - 05:49 PM, said:

I am not a good computer geek amd I have difficulty in getting advice that is understandable.I have an HP office jet 6500 printer and need to know a good OCR software for my printer. I am in education and I create many documents using Microsoft word.(forms,charts, test) I would love to scan these documents into my computer, retrieve it later and edit it with new data.The OCR software that comes with the printer changes the numbers and form design to unreadable mush when I scan to Microsoft word.I can scan to PDF document and it turns out perfect, but I can not edit the PDF document. Any advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
thank,
Pamlico

I guess I am missing what you are actually wanting to scan in using the OCR software. If you are creating these documents with Word, then do you not already have those documents in the computer in Word format? I guess I am missing something...

Are you trying to scan in the COMPLETED forms/tests? If so, are these completed forms/tests completed by hand (i.e. hand-writing with pencil or pen)? If so, OCR likely will not work too well as OCR is really aimed at scanning in type-written type documents. You would need a VERY, VERY sophisticated OCR program that could handle reading all different types of hand-writing...something that people are not always able to do. I am not sure any such animal exists.

[DoctorDoc12]

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[MarioH]

In the same matter of Pamlico - I'm looking for an OCR system (easy to use – I’m not so technical guy) that enables to scan an entire book of 250 pages and then automatically create 250 html pages so I can publish that entire book online in 250 pages such as this one - basic fonts and basic design and style - as you can see I don't really care about the design and style, I just want accurate 1:1 printed -> html sentences and paragraphs. How can I do that?

Thank you,

Mario.

[amphi]

Palmico and MarioH, have you ever tried the HP scanners or all-in-one printers? They do have OCR software that can scan any text file and you'll have the scanned files as text or html.

[macgal]

Hello, the OCR application I use to convert my scanned PDF docs into text is OCRKit. Really easy drag & drop functionality and high speed conversion.
I got it from the Mac App Store for something like $49, but was totally worth it, as I can edit all of my documents and keep them all in one place.
Hope I helped, cheers!