Image 2 Text - Help Needed

[modpluz]

hi guyz,

pls i need help in changing an image to text, say for example i have a scanned page from the New York Times.

and i want to convert it to text so that i can use the text.

reason: too lazy to type(about 12 pages - front/back=24 pages)

[Slaine]

What you are after is a piece of software that will do a process called Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This is a common requirement and one that has been solved several times - but with varying degrees of success. In fact there are many applications that can do this, but the accuracy of their results is often reflected in their price tag.

If you have Microsoft Office installed then you should have a "Microsoft Office Document Scanning" item on the office tools menu - this will allow you to scan and OCR the pages - although I currently only use it for scanning, so cannot vouch for its OCR capabilities.

Another alternative is to check out http://www.simpleocr.com/ which provides a free OCR application, and a plugin that can even be used in your own applications.

Hope this helps.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ocr+software&meta=