Text scanning

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    Text scanning

    Does anyone know anywhere in HK where I can scan some documents but the text will be lifted out into a Word document? Like a card scanner but for 40 pages of documents.

    Thanks.


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    There is software that is supposed to be able to do this.

    Its not cheap and I haven't used it myself, but www.abbyy.com has products like FineReader which are claim to be good for this.


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    There are open source and other free OCR projects like JOCR. If you have a scanner and some patience, you could do it yourself.


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    It's a bit of a 'get it done and pay the cost' situation. Surely there must be somewhere that does it- many scanners come with it installed.