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I scanned some text pages and sent them to myself via email. They arrived as jpg files! Is there any way to convert these to text?

XP and MSN.

Thanks for any help.
 
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Could only find 1 converter listed and It has a bad layout and B) I'm not too sure if it will do the job Frown

Have you still got the original pages? What I'd do is Rescan them but check the settings before you send if anything like Send or Format as JPG are Not Highlighted on the Preferences

Trial and error time Catty Roll Eyes
 
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Hmmm.Well, bedstor dear, I have several choices: send via email, save to disk and one or two others, but I have no choice on my Lexmark All in One as to the format. I wonder if I save them as pix, then bring them up in a photo app I might be able to save them as text. I'll try that and get back to you. Thanks.
 
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There is a USB scanning pen on the market which can copy lines of text from paper (Not the whole page ) and you paste it into a Text file ...Very slow but it does the job eventually
www.eurocosm.com/Application/Products/Wizcom/infoscan-GB.asp


More here....
As for scanning via your All in 1. It grabs what it can see and It is an Image therefore logically the output is an Image hence a JPEG or GIF is produced so you are Checkmated! Unless
there are filter settings on the Output of your All in 1 Roll Eyes

Brother has one of these I'll look through the manual see if there is any hope
 
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Thank you, bedstor. I can't see how the printer/scanner could view it as an image when it was text, but that's just my ignorance.

Some of this stuff is worth saving and some is not. I think it would probably be faster to type what I want than to use the pen.

Please know that I do appreciate all the help you have given me over the years.
 
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And back at you catty

I don't mind in the least You set the challenge I try find a solution Gives the grey matter something to do otherwise I'd be staring at people going past our house in the rain Frown
 
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Aw, bedstor, you are so...yeah.
 
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If you wish to scan a page of text and have the page result in editable text, you do a process called "OCR" or Optical Character Recognition.

This is a program that looks at the image characters and detemines what alphanumeric character the image represents.

Most scanning software comes with a basic OCR option and most extensive software can be purchased.

More about OCR

What is the make/model of your scanner? With that information, we can point out the OCR procedure.

Dwight
 
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Hi Dwight:

My scanner is a Lexmark X5100 All in One printer/scanner.

Would you recommend this program?

http://www.simpleocr.com/

Thanks, Big Guy
 
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Lexmark X5100 All in One
From the manual detailing this product:
Scanning using the All-In-One software
You can use your All-In-One software to scan in many ways. You can:
• Repeat images (scan to print). For help, see page 34.
• Autofit (scan to print).
• Multi-up - An All-In-One software option that lets you print multiple
pages of a document on a single sheet of paper. For example,
select 4-up to print reduced images of pages 1 through 4 on the first
sheet of paper, images of pages 5 through 8 on the second sheet,
and so on.
• Use Optical Character Recognition to edit text on a document.
• Use Optical Character Recognition to edit document text (page 37). Look at your manual (This page) to find the information or see below:
Use Optical Character Recognition
Optical Character Recognition is a software feature that turns a scanned
image into editable text within a word processing program.
1 Open the top cover.
2 Place the item you want to edit face down on the scanner glass.
Make sure the upper left corner of the front of the item aligns with
the arrow at the bottom right of the scanner.
3 From your desktop, double-click the Lexmark X5100 Series
All-In-One Center icon.
The All-In-One Main Page appears.
4 From the Creative Tasks area, scroll to Edit and then click Edit text
found in a scanned document (OCR).
5 Follow the instructions on your computer screen.

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Dwight, what a peach you are. I have my book, and I did read it, but OCR didn't mean a thing to me. What I need is a good, comprehensive glossary of computer terms.

Thanks again, Big Guy.
 
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What I need is a good, comprehensive glossary of computer terms.


http://www.webopedia.com/ This is a good one. For an example, type in ocr into the search.

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