does anybody know optical character recognition?

[Phyllis]

I am trying to find out how to scan a form into OCR. Do anybody know how?

 

[Charlie Hoffpauir]

I am trying to find out how to scan a form into OCR. Do anybody know how?

You will need to use an OCR program that works on forms... not all do.
A Google search on "OCR forms" turns up 636000 hits.... one of them
should give you more information. I don't personally use forms
processing OCR software, but I've heard that ABBYY Finereader works
well.
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

 

[papagru]

If you want ocr, you want the text to be editable, i.e., readable in Word.
Forms usually involve graphics, even if it's just boxes & lines. To get a
good scan of that, usually takes an image scan, not ocr. Assuming you really
need ocr, the 2 best programs are Omnipage and Abbyy, both at $200+.
Papagru