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From: Penny B <>
Subject: Re: Fw: SCAN
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 12:50:27 -0500
References: <20001225.200145.-314271.2.alexrobbin@juno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001225.200145.-314271.2.alexrobbin@juno.com>


Most scanners today typically come with at least 2 programs: an image
editor for photos and graphics and an OCR, or optical character
recognition program for text scanning. My Umax came with PhotoMax for
image scanning and OmniPage for text scanning and editing. Check to
see what programs came with your scanner. If yours did not come with
an OCR program, your best bet might be to find someone who has a
program and ask them to scan it for you. You can buy these programs
also. They can be expensive, but I think that a simple, no frills one
would do the trick. Mine is a limited edition version of the full
OmniPage program.

Good luck.

At 8:01 PM -0600 12/25/2000, Alexandra Robbin wrote:
>Can someone on this GEN-EDITOR list answer the query? You might post to
>this list, with copy to Gay.
>Alexandra
>
>--------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Gay Parrish <>
>To:
>Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 20:22:34 -0500
>Subject: SCAN
>
>I have a problem/question and hope someone in this LIST will advise if
>it's solvable (is that a word??).
>
>A 10-page Genealogy document was prepared and printed by me several
>months ago; unfortunately my word process (Wordperfect 6.0a) copy was
>deleted leaving me with a "hard" copy only. Now I find several of those
>pages are in need of editing.
>
>My problem/question is can this document be scanned whereby editing is
>possible??
>
>My scanner unit is included in Canon's Multipass C5500 -- in attempting
>to scan/edit I've only been successful in scanning images which, to my
>knowledge, cannot be edited other than shifting positions, etc. I need to
>add paragraphs, change sentence structure, correct grammar,
>..........
>It's possible my unit is not geared for scanning/editing but I don't care
>to spend $39.95 or whatever with Canon to learn simply that it cannot be
>done. Hopefully one of you will be much smarter than I along these lines.
>
>Gay Parrish
>
>
>
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