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To: jw who wrote (5657)	9/10/1999 1:19:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) of 110653

jw, when you scan something you get a picture. So when you scan a document you are getting a picture of the text, not the actual text. The only way to get it back into text would be to type it out manually or use a text recognition (they're called optical character recogniton -- OCR) program. Like you say you could convert the bmp file to a jpeg which is much smaller in size using something like photoimpact. I tried Corel's OCR software and found it cumbersome and not really that good. Only tried it once and got frustrated. You can try it out for free. There's supposed to be other better, more expensive stuff out there. mark, please excuse the butt-in, but I've been down jw's road -- we seem to have the same types of computer-impulses. w

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