Does MS Office have an Optical Character Reader?

[Bob with CG Auxiliary]

I would rather scan than type two pages of type. I rarely have a need for OCR

and do not have capability, I don't think, right now. Is there an MS Office

or free app that would serve my "once a decade" need?

 

[DL]

Often a scanner is supplied with OCR software



"Bob with CG Auxiliary"

wrote in message news:0F0CD84B-80B4-477A-9AD9-AD09313B60D1@microsoft.com...

>I would rather scan than type two pages of type. I rarely have a need for

>OCR

> and do not have capability, I don't think, right now. Is there an MS

> Office

> or free app that would serve my "once a decade" need?

 

[Bob I]

The Microsoft Office Document Imaging Utility has OCR, not great but it

works for small stuff as long as you are willing to proof it's output.



Bob with CG Auxiliary wrote:



> I would rather scan than type two pages of type. I rarely have a need for OCR

> and do not have capability, I don't think, right now. Is there an MS Office

> or free app that would serve my "once a decade" need?

 

[Bill Davy]

"Bob with CG Auxiliary"

wrote in message news:0F0CD84B-80B4-477A-9AD9-AD09313B60D1@microsoft.com...

>I would rather scan than type two pages of type. I rarely have a need for

>OCR

> and do not have capability, I don't think, right now. Is there an MS

> Office

> or free app that would serve my "once a decade" need?





My Lexmark printer/scanner came with some very good OCR software called

ABBYY Fine Reader which makes a Word document and even adds mark up (like

font and point size). It even sorts outs columns. I must confess I was

well impressed but the the last OCR I saw was Kurzweil back in the

seventies,