| User | Thread poster: Caroline Tsaganas Transforming scanned text into word text |
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Caroline Tsaganas 
Greece
Local time: 09:55
 Member (2011)
English to French
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Hi everyone,
I have received this text to translate but unfortunately the agency is only able to deliver a scan of the document (i.e. an image).
It is plain text (originally a word file I guess) and I'd like to know if you have another idea rather than retyping it entirely. It is not long, but I'd like to know if a solution exists so as to be able to use it also for other projects.
Thanks a lot for your insight
Caroline
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JL01
United States
Local time: 02:55
English to French
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OCR applications can turn a scanned image into text.
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Alexander Chisholm
Italy
Local time: 08:55
 Member (2003)
Italian to English
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| | OCR software | Sep 23, 2011 |
There are many OCR software packages available for download.
I currently use ABBYY finereader for Mac, but in the past I have also used Omnipage for PC.
I believe PDF OCR X community edition will do small jobs for free, but you may also be able to find a trial version of other commercial packages that will do the job for you and not require purchase.
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Caroline Tsaganas
Greece
Local time: 09:55
Member (2011)
English to French
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Thank you both very much for your help. Goodnight. Caroline
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Sergei Tumanov
Estonia
Local time: 09:55
English to Russian
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| | But why to retype? | Sep 23, 2011 |
Why don´t you translate it from scratch in a new MS Word file?
Print out the original and just look at it when typing the translation.
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The translation workplace 
