How well does this work converting scanned tables into an editable Word/Excel file? I work as a translator and often get faxes and scans of tables.
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I typically use photos of documents for my text conversions and I find the quality of the table scan depends depends on the quality of the photo input. if the photo is slightly out of focus the ocr output is poor. A scanner should be better quality than some photos so it should work.
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I'm thinking of buying this scanner. I am an oral historian and need a portable scanner to take with me on my interviews. I will be scanning photos, news clippings, all kinds of things. Question: does it really work with Windows 7 64 bit. I have an HP laptop I'm planning to use it with. Current feedback would be great. Thanks!
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Not perfect, but very good. Brother uses Scansoft Paperport 12SE software by Nuance for scanning and OCR. It does a very good job with clear typed scans. If there is handwriting on the page, or unusual formatting, then sometimes the scan software gets confused. I find that it usually takes less than a minute per page to correct errors, if there are any. Proofreading is necessary with all OCR software to insure accuracy.
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You can easily use Word to create your programs and I would be happy to send you my document (and a picture of the results). The key thing to note is, you MUST HAVE A PRINTER THAT LOADS PAPER FLAT and not around a cylinder. Cylindrical printers will not work for this kit.
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Thats what I use it for and I love it. Can use huge worksheets without scrolling, and easily have 4-6 pages up in Word at the same time. Great for editing.Be careful as you MUST have a Dual Link DVI port, or Active Displayport adapter and a computer that supports the default resolution as that is the only resolution.
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All it does is scan barcodes! We use it in an excel file in leu of manually typing UPCs. What specifically are you using it for?
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Yes and no. It isn't a true document scanner so you are manually scanning each and every page. The main point of interest is the optical character application (Adobe's ABBYY FineReader Version 9). This converts scanned text to either PDF or Word format. It's not a bad program for pamphlets and pure text documents. However I was hoping to scan a workshop manual for my car - that was a Fail for reasons that have more to do with Word than with FineReader. In short I am now looking for document scanning software because nothing included with the scanner was up to the task I was attempting.
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I save my scanned documents to my computer. I do not know the answer to your question.
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Hi! Not sure if it will work on mac computer as i coupled it with windows 8. It works fine but theres no scanning mode. Only fax, copy and print.
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it's so easy but... doesn't work well with thin papers. I love neat desk. It works much better. Neatconnect is best for who doesn't have computer at the moment scanning.
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Only done it a couple of times and it worked well. Some fields were converted to text boxes, but editing and resaving as pdf worked perfectly.
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Posted this in response to another question, but check out and download Libre Office instead: it's free, has complete MS Office functionality including reading from/editing/saving as MS Office file types.
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It can b, t doable. The software included in th scanner driver contins OCR (Optical Character Recognition).If you scanning a clean document, the OCR will recognize text, so it wll be possble to save it as a text document and later format and convert into Word document.
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yes and it works fairly well. Word and Excel can also read open office spreadsheets and docs.
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It seems, from my use of the scanner, that this'd work just fine, though you'd have to attend the scan or else check the file to ensure that all pages were inclued (the scanner occasionally grabs more than one page at once). Not to state the obvious, but try it first with a book you can replace easily :-) Also, note the advice from the poster before me (don't get binding glue/debris in the scanner).
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There are at least two very good, free, open source word processors I can recommend. One is Abiword, a dedicated word processor. The other is Libre Office (also available as "Open Office"), which is a free MS Office like package including a spreadsheet program (like Excel) a presentation program (like PowerPoint) and others - all compatible with MS Office files. Search for the programs using Google and download and install what you want.
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I run on Mac. It has been compatible with all of my MS Office for Mac files. I would be willing to step out and say it should work well for the PC version as well.