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To: average joe who wrote (33591)	4/6/2003 5:54:02 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

joe, any scanner can do that and most come with OCR [optical character recognition] software. I don't know which brand OCR software is best. Typed pages convert quite well, although there may be a few recognition errors that you have to fix manually. Gottfried

To: average joe who wrote (33591)	4/7/2003 10:50:35 AM
From: Patricia Meaney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110581

joe, If you use a scanner to convert it to a Word file, make sure you go over the document very carefully (don't rely on spell check). Many times when you scan a document that gets changed to a Word file the translation changes some of the characters. You might get certain letters that substitute for others. I have done this before and use an HP scanner. Not sure if there is one scanner that is better than the rest when it comes to the conversion.