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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Work

ComedDocs Converts Between More Than 50 File Types

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | We know of one or two sites (or many more, actually) that provide file conversions between PDFs, Word documents, and a few other files. CometDocs takes the all-in-one approach, supporting more than 50 file types. More »
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Scan Images to Text in Microsoft Word

9:30AM Gina Trapani | Tech help site Of Zen and Computing describes how to use Microsoft Office to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR)—that is, recognize text inside digital images (like scanned documents). The Microsoft Document Imaging application comes with Microsoft Office (who knew?) and can grok text from TIFF images. Haven’t tried this one myself, but after wrestling with various OCR apps several years ago, my expectations are low. What’s your favorite OCR application or method? Tell us about it in the comments. Read Text from a Scanned Document into Word with OCR [Of Zen and Computing] More »
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