On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Craig Craft <craftwa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I know you are busy with involvement in the Apache/Open Office project. I > am a 'tech flunky' learning to use word processing and pc technology, in > general. I am a researcher/writer and I am looking for information as to > how I may scan documents into editable files that I can merge into my text > documents. If it is not too much trouble, can someone point me in the > correct direction please. I am using a very basic all-in-one scanner (canon > MG 2500 Series) and a very basic laptop running Windows > Hello Craig, What you need is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. Windows does not have native (comes with Windows) OCR as far as I know. The software that comes with printers that have built in scanners may include OCR software. There are also 3rd party OCR programs available. Here's a link I found to Windows OCR programs. I'm not familiar with any of them. http://listoffreeware.com/list-of-best-free-ocr-software-for-windows/
