I have some data in (I guess) picture format and I want to change

O

Onion

I have some text in (I guess) picture format and I want to change it to a
usable text format such to copy and paste how would I accomplish this using
either microsoft word, excel,powerpoint or adobe acrobat reader
 
J

Jay Freedman

I have some text in (I guess) picture format and I want to change it to a
usable text format such to copy and paste how would I accomplish this using
either microsoft word, excel,powerpoint or adobe acrobat reader
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None of the above.

What you need is optical character recognition (OCR) software. This kind of
program usually works with the output of a scanner, but most of them can read at
least some graphic formats (.jpg, .tif, some others).

MS Office includes Microsoft Document Imaging, which has basic OCR capability.
If you don't have it installed, you can rerun the installer and choose a custom
installation that should let you select that program. If you have a scanner,
check the software bundle that came with it.
 
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