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Copy/paste scanned text JPEG format

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brucine Posted messages 24686 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello,

I scanned some sheets with my scanner and I would like to extract the text.

I tried the JPEG/Word conversion but I cannot enter the document.

I had downloaded a software following a reply on this forum on a somewhat different topic but I lost it; I think it "did the job."

Could you help me?

Thank you.

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brucine Posted messages 24686 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 148
 

Hello,

JPG is an image and DOCX is text, so it is impossible to do without going through OCR (optical character recognition), with free or paid software having varying degrees of success.

A search for "convert JPG to DOCX" yields a number of online sites that, in fact, perform this OCR themselves, to be tested with no guaranteed success.

It is obviously easier if we scan not to JPG but to PDF, and where, although it is more difficult from a scanned PDF itself, we can to some extent perhaps not open and edit the PDF directly in Word but copy-paste excerpts of the "text" from the "image" obtained.
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