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    Is there a way to scan a page full of letters and then with some kind of software convert all this into the clipboard, so i can paste it later in word or excel....

    Its just that if this is not possible i have to type it myself and there are like 14 pages...

    Thanks

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    Well i saw some thimg and it comes like with a special pen and you write. Then it converts it in to like word. It wount help you thouht you would have needed to wrote it with a the special pen. It will aslo run you about $300 + tax.

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    Originally posted by twister203@9 February 2004 - 21:16
    Well i saw some thimg and it comes like with a special pen and you write. Then it converts it in to like word. It wount help you thouht you would have needed to wrote it with a the special pen. It will aslo run you about $300 + tax.


    Maybe someone else knows about something...

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    i dont use or know much about this but what you need is OCR software for your scanner, it recognises characters

    ABBYY FineReader is one of them

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    Originally posted by pol@9 February 2004 - 21:23
    i dont use or know much about this but what you need is OCR software for your scanner, it recognises characters

    ABBYY FineReader is one of them
    Thanks, im gonna try that

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    Originally posted by pol@9 February 2004 - 15:23

    ABBYY FineReader is one of them
    I second this software, you could also use Omnipage, it is good

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