Jack

The OCR application is employed at the time of scanning the data and creates a
*.txt file or scans directly to a word processing Application like MS Word.

The scanner most always comes with the OCR program.

You cannot "convert" a jpeg to a a text file that Excel could read.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:25:45 +0100, "Jack Sheet"
<mind-the-gap@DEEPblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>OK it was probably asking a bit much to find a free converter. Anyone know
>of a good value one?
>
>"Jack Sheet" <mind-the-gap@DEEPblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:O%237z$2XqGHA.4992@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a substantial quantity of tabulated data presented in JPEG format
>> from scanned hard copies.
>> The data is typed and "clean".
>> Is there a freebie utility out there that will "OCR" this data into .xls
>> format? I appreciate that it will then need careful checking, but it
>> would still be a lot quicker than typing it all in.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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