Gord

Thanks, but I don't have the scanner, I am only presented with the scanned
data, and this is in jpg format. So at the moment I have no OCR capability
at all, except as suggested by MyVeryOwnSelf (which I have not tried yet).

I will look around.

"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca> wrote in message
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> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Return email address is not as DEEP as it appears
>>>
>>
>