And if you have an Iphone, Google Lens is built into the Google App, as far as I can tell. you want to find the 'text' mode.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 7:40 PM Michael H <cma...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you have a paper document you want to turn into text, and your scanner > doesn't give you text output as an option... you can download Google Lens > and point your phone at the document and copy each page that way. > > But the copied text is in your phone, so you'll have to email it to a > desktop or use another editor like google docs or calibra office to paste > into, then open that with libreoffice. But saving files as PDF isn't > good. PDF is a final output, used to make it hard for other people to edit > the file. That's the whole point of PDF, and why it's used so commonly for > finished work. use ODT format for libreoffice... you'll save yourself a lot > of headache. but when you send it, you do need to output it to another > form, PDF is best, but you can use .doc or .docx . but MS formats aren't > intended to be the working format for libreoffice, but a way to exchange > information to non-informed users. > > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 7:33 PM Mike Flannigan <mf...@mflan.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 10/29/23 20:12, Kenneth Groninga wrote: >> > When I scan a document how can I save if as a text rather tban an image? >> > >> >> By using OCR to turn it into text. Often the >> OCR is built-in to the scanning software. >> >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >> Problems? >> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy >> > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
