Software for a scaned document that can be edited

[mol3000]

Can someone give me a good software that changes a scaned pic or document into something that i can edit?????

[redwudz]

A scanned picture is easy, just scan and save as a JPG or what you want.

For text you need a OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program.

I use TextBridge Pro 11. About $80US. A cut down version is sometimes included with a scanner. There are more expensive ones, but it seems to be able to read about anything, even newsprint.

Formatting is still a problem if you want to scan forms, but straight text is easy. There are probably freeware ones out there if you just need a simple text scan. You can usually send the scanned print data directly to a word processor for cleaning up.

[mol3000]

can textpro change jpeg and pdf into docs also????????

[redwudz]

.pdf is an Adobe electronic text media. If it's printed, it's not .pdf. Unless I'm not understanding your meaning. If you are trying to extract text from a .pdf file, that's different. Here's one converter with a 15 day trial period.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PDF-to-Word-Converter.shtml

OCR is only for text recognition. Just about any photo editing program can interface with a scanner for scanning a photo, even MS Paint. If you have the 'twain' driver installed for the scanner, that is.

If you are asking can you scan a text page with pictures and be able to both edit the picture and the text at the same time, I don't know, you may be able to. My scanner is at work, and I rarely have need to scan a page and separate out a photo from the text. I know I can do them separately and join them back into a new document.

[guns1inger]

Some very badly made pdf files contain scanned images rather than text, so you have to get the images out and then OCR them. Most OCR software will allow you to load graphics files for translation.

[rallynavvie]

We use OmniPage at work for the very few times we need to capture text. That program will do a lot, but it's price tag is something close to $1000 USD. It will see pictures in a scanned text document and embed them to the best of its ability within the output document. However OCR is only worth the time when you have a really clean scan of a really cleanly printed document (i.e. offset print). We only use it for archiving printed documents that we don't have digital copies of so that the text is contained within the PDF so it is searchable through Windows or similar, and those documents are usually many pages. For a single page I find it's just easier to retype the thing rather than go through the tedium of manual character recognition, not to mention I have a ton more control over the layout of the final document if I'm starting from scratch.