How to edit scans. A program for editing scanned documents: What is better? Software solutions for the conversion of scanned documents

Sometimes there is no time to create new document And urgently needed:

• edit a scanned drawing or scheme, make an add-on document, comments;
• insert into the scanned drawing of the form of the field document to fill;
• just get clean, without blots and excess dirty background.

To do this, the scanned document must be converted to black and white, if necessary, eliminate the skew, and clear from the "garbage".
I foresee the question - why not turn on the black and white mode when scanning? It is possible, but the quality of the image received in this case will be an order of magnitude lower than in the considered example.

There are specialized programs for these purposes, such as Spotlight Pro, but they are complex, and for their development requires considerable time.

I want to offer a simpler, but effective processing of scanned documents using the ABBYY FineReader 9.0 optical recognition program.

Scan the document, you can directly from the program interface or insert a scanned drawing to process.

For clarity and complications of the task, we will take the already scanned reversal of the book, with blocks of pages and yellowed pages from time. Using the ABBYY FineReader 9.0 program, we transform the drawing into black and white, correct the skew and clean the garbage.

1. Run the ABBYY FineReader program and in the menu Service, choose the team Options.
   In the window that opens, in the tab Scan / Open, I will celebrate item Do not process the resultSo we will not recognize the text - we only need an image. Select the parameters Image processing:
2. Now clean the image from the garbage - small points. For this, simply click 1-3 times the button Clear image At the same time, we see the process of deleting garbage. When you first press, smaller points are removed, and with the subsequent, larger.
   

   Plot of drawing before the process of cleaning the garbage.

   

   Picture of the picture after a single click on the button Clear image

   

   Picture of the picture after the second click on the button Clear image

   

3. Now, it remains to clean the image from large "kleks" and darkened areas. You can do it using the tool Eraser .
   The principle of operation of this tool differs from the work of similar tools of other common graphic editorsand of course in best side. In this case, it disappears the need to "burn" the leaf pictogram in the image, periodically choosing the abolition team, after inappropriate useful information. Erase the image of the image in the ABBYY FineReader program, you can highlight this area.
   Holding the left mouse button, select the image of any sizes, and, making sure that only the elements intended for deletion are released, release the button. The selected area is cleaned.
4. We look at the resulting purified pattern, and on one of the pages we discover a small nuance. Lines of text slightly distorted. But it turns out and from this defect scanning can easily get rid of. Press the button Repair string distortion , and the defect is fixed.
   

   Plot of image before fixing string distortion

   Plot of image after fixing string distortion

5. That's all, it turned out clean, without distortion and distortion of strings image.

It can be printed without spending excess paint on the blots and dirt, send by e-mail A friend, without a remorse of conscience for not high-quality scan, as well as save for further use in any of the supported formats.

To save the image in the menu File, choose the team Save the image like .... Choose any of the supported formats:
Bitmap, black and white (* .bmp; * .dib; * .rle)
Bitmap, Gray (* .bmp; * .dib; * .rle)
Bitmap, color (* .bmp; * .dib; * .rle)
DCX, black and white (* .dcx)
DCX, Gray (* .dcx)
DCX, color (* .dcx)
Jbig2 (* .jb2; * .jbig2)
JPEG 2000, gray (* .jp2; * .j2k)
JPEG 2000, color (* .jp2; * .j2k)
JPEG, gray (* .jpg; * .jpeg)
JPEG, color (* .jpg; * .jpeg)
PCX, black and white (* .pcx)
PCX, Gray (* .pcx)
PCX, Color (* .pcx)
PNG, black and white (* .png)
PNG, gray (* .png)
PNG, color (* .png)
TIFF, black and white, uncompressed (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, black and white, PackBits (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, black and white, compression: zip (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, black and white, compression: lzw (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, black and white, group4 (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, Gray, Uncompressed (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, Gray, PackBits (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, Gray, Compression: JPEG (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, Gray, Compression: Zip (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, Gray, Compression: LZW (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, color, uncompressed (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, color, PackBits (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, Color, Compression: JPEG (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, Color, Compression: Zip (* .tif; * .tiff)
TIFF, Color, Compression: LZW (* .tif; * .tiff)
PDF (* .pdf)

Purified scans of pages from "garbage" and with corrected distortion of rows.

I would like to note, many currently translate their documents (drawings, schemes, books ...) in electronic view. With a large amount of work, it is more convenient to use the camera for these purposes. With some models of scanners and cameras that support the function of rebagging the documents, the ABBYY FineReader program comes with. When choosing a tool for transferring documents to electronic form, it is necessary to take into account this, since FineReader, taking into account its main purpose - the optical recognition of the text, for those who work with documents not less useful programthan text editor.

It often happens that it is necessary to edit the text contained only in the paper version. To recognize and edit on this moment There are quite a few programs that differ not only by the quality of the results, but also an extended functionality. Fine Reader is one of the best existing applications for these purposes.

You will need

• - text editor;
• - FINE READER program.

Instruction

Download and install the scanned text recognition program, such as Fine Reader. Check out the functionality of the program - many modern versions support the integration of the scanned text directly in Word if such a function is available in your copy of the program, perform the operation by skipping the following items.

If you have old versions of the program, scan the document you need to edit with standard program Your copy equipment you usually use, and save it in format.jpg on your computer.

Click once right-click Mice on the saved image, select "Open with ..." and in the program list that appears, select the recently installed Fine Reader. If necessary, check the check box "Use for all data for files of this type. You can also just scan the image with already open programBy selecting "Scan and Read", while the image from the device is imported straight to the workspace. To do this, in the settings, specify the scanner operation parameters in the Fine Reader mode.

In the program window that opens, select "Recognize Text". Wait until the program reads the document. If the operation results do not meet your requirements, change the scan and recognition settings and repeat the re-update procedure.

Save the resulting document in any format that is supported. microsoft program Office Word.. Close Fine Reader, go to the folder to which your document has been saved.

Open the file using MS Office Word or any other text editor in which you can work conveniently. Make the desired changes in the file, save the results.

Tip added June 23, 2011 Tip 2: How to fix the document often when the document has already been signed, it is necessary to correct the annoying typo or put a missing letter. This must be done in order not to spoil opinion about yourself for those who are sent a scanned copy of the document. In case the document must be sent in print, the corrections are not possible, but if you have to send it a scanned copy, you can always correct the errors in the text.

Instruction

Often, when the document has already been signed, it is necessary to correct the annoying typical or put the missed letter. This must be done in order not to spoil opinion about yourself for those who are sent a scanned copy of the document. In case the document must be sent in print, the corrections are not possible, but if you have to send it a scanned copy, you can always correct the errors in the text.

Open the sheet to be fixed in editor Paint. In case the paper turned out not white, but a little dark, use microsoft Editor In order to dry out the background, then open it in Paint.

Deposit the place of typos or skipped symbol. With the help of an eraser, we will erase an unnecessary letter. Make sure that the white seller, which remains after the eraser, did not stand out against the background of the common background.

Use the "Copy" tool. With this tool, circle the letter you need to put in place erased. Copy it and gently insert into the place that you read the eraser. Make sure that the height of the letter is at the same level as the height of nearby, and the distance to other letters was equal.

Repeat the previous step until you achieve the complete adjustment of the desired fragment of the text. After that, check the color of the letters that you inserted, coincided with the color of others that you did not touch. If you scanned in good resolution, there should be no problems with it. Reduce the document in two or three times and save as file.jpg.

In order to maximize the tracks of adjustments, use JPGTOPDF Converter. Configure the image to the PDF file and send the sender.

How to fix the document - Print version

Quite often, among users of scanners, the question arises how to edit the scanned document. In general, it is possible to solve the problem of this kind, using special software Or online service that supports converting from PDF to any format convenient for editing. Below you can familiarize yourself with several popular software and services that will help you to convert scanned documents to further edit them.

Solving the problem with OCR

If you need editing scanned documents, then use any OCR program, the function of which is the optical recognition of characters. This software compares characters in the scanned file with those characters that are available in its database. After that, the program of this category makes the file conversion in a convenient text format. However, take into account that far from all OCRs are able to work free of charge - among them there are many and paid options. Also note that depending on how qualitatively you will be able to scan the original, you may encounter various errors, editing ready-made scan. To solve directly the task associated with how to edit the scanned text Follow the following instruction:

• Load the OCR program from the developer's official website or any reliable web resource and install it.
• Open the editable file in the program window. This process It may differ for everyone for a similar type, but in general it will be necessary to open the file, after which run the conversion process. In many such programs, you can select the appropriate format of the output file. The main thing is that the changed type document is convenient for you.
• After the conversion produced, you will need to be removed from the finished file formatting if some problems arose with it. The fact is that the software can take into account formatting, for example, fonts, line intervals, if the scan file is not scanned enough. To remove formatting, use any text editor, for example, a regular "Notepad". It is usually not able to recognize formatting, making it possible to insert text into it without excess code.
• At the end, you need to open a new document in any convenient editor and proceed to such a process as editing scanned documents. Be sure to use the spell check function in order to find all errors and eliminate them. But formatting errors will have to be corrected manually.

But before turning on the scanner and scan one or another text, you should initially decide on the symbol optical recognition program that is convenient for you. Next, you can get acquainted with one of the most popular and common among them:

1. One of the most famous OCR category programs is ABBYY FineReader working on a fee. This software is used to convert scans to text files using patented algorithms that allow recognizing even text that has not very high quality. In general, the advantages of the program are to be highly accurately recognized text, the ability to convert the entire structure and appearance scanned text. Consequently, she will leave not only text, but also tables, drawings, and so on.
2. Readiris Pro is also a fairly common program with OCR function, which has a very user-friendly interface. With it, you can save recognized text in formats such as XPS, OpenOffice, PDF, Word and Excel. It should be added that this program allows you to work with more than hundreds of the world and DJVU format.
3. Freemore OCR is a program distributed absolutely free. With it, you can quickly quickly remove graphics and text from scanned images. The extracted text can be saved as Word document. In addition, it has a function of multi-page recognition. But note that the program interface is performed only on english language. However, this circumstance does not affect the convenience of use.

Solving the task using online services

If you are interested in the answer to the question of how to change the scanned document without establishing special software applications, Take advantage of any online service offering converting images to text. Usually all these resources work according to the same scheme. You just need to download the scan of the document, after saving it in PDF format, after which following the recommendations to select the desired task and click on something to "convert" (everywhere differently). Then the service will give you a ready-made file as a Word document.

• One of the most convenient and best servicesOffering the conversion of PDF in Word to edit the scan, is smallpdf.com. Its advantages are to simple interface, fast work, excellent quality results, support for dropbox and google-disc and mass additional features. You can only use it only twice an hour. If necessary, you can purchase a paid Pro account, as a result of which the list of functions will be significantly expanded.
• Also quite convenient online conversion service is Zamzar.com. It has the opportunity batch processing Files, lots of converting options and speed. At the same time, this resource can be used absolutely free. However, there are limitations on size - no more than 50 MB. To remove this limit, you will have to pay the appropriate tariff. In addition, the result can only be obtained on the e-mail, which will have to first enter before downloading the file.

When working with paper documents, manuscripts or books, often the need to translate everything into electronic format. This opens up much more features and significantly facilitates the editing process. In the presence of a scanner or a digital camera with high resolution, this will not be difficult, but then the question arises as a scanned document to translate into Word format? In order not to reprint everything by manually, you should use specialized software.

Software solutions for the conversion of scanned documents

Such a task should not cause difficulties. Modern programs Allow how to edit the scanned document partially and completely translate it into a convenient Word format. And this can be done literally in a few minutes.

Tip: Thanks to high-speed Internet, you can easily find the necessary program To edit scanned documents. Moreover, you can now use online services for text recognition.

Among popular programs To perform such operations, you can allocate:

1. ABBYY FineReader (including online);

3. Readiris Pro;

6. online service OCR Convert, etc.

A rich functionality and simplicity in circulation make them quite popular. High reliability and performance are appreciated by both ordinary users and business representatives. Even an inexperienced person can quickly figure out how to scan the document in Word.

Text Recognition and Scanned Document Conversion

Usually have to deal with pictures in format.jpg, .tiff, .png, .bmp is the result of scanning or photographing. How to translate document to Word for further work? Text cannot be edited in conventional ways. Some scanners support automatic conversion in format.pdf, but the possibilities are still limited.

To get full-fledged text Document, You should download the file to the program through a special form (click "Open" or "Download"). To increase accuracy, you can specify the range of pages and select specific region With text. After some time, a preliminary result will appear. After that, it remains to save the file.doc to figure out how to edit the scanned document using MS Word.

Creating a bookcase and logs in a digital read-up format is possible thanks to PDF editors. This software turns paper pages in pDF file. The program products presented below allow you to perform the task. Applying the latest technologies, programs will help get a scanned image with a subsequent color correction or display of text from the sheet and editing it.

Product aDOBE.designed for creation PDF. documents. There are three versions of the program that differ to a certain extent. For example, transformation into a format for working with, creating digital signature And the joint access with other users is in the premium version, but not in the standard one. All tools are grouped in specific menu categories, and the interface itself is decorated and minimalized. Directly in the workspace you can convert PDF to DOCX and XLSX, as well as save web pages as a PDF object. Thanks to all this to collect your own portfolio and configure ready-made working templates will not make problems.

ABBYY FineReader.

One of the most famous text recognition applications that allows you to save it as a PDF document. The program recognizes the contents in PNG, JPG, PCX, DJVU, and the digitization itself occurs immediately after opening the file. Here you can edit the document and save it in popular formats, moreover, the XLSX tables are supported. Directly from the FineReader workspace, printers for printing and scanners for working with papers and subsequent digitization are connected. Software Universal and allows you to fully process the file from a paper sheet to a digital version.

Scan Corrector A4.

Simple program for the correction of scanned sheets and images. The parameters provide a change in brightness, contrast and color tone. The features refers to the memorization of up to ten sequentially entered images without saving them on the computer. The borders of the A4 format are configured in the workspace to fully scan the paper sheet. The Russian-speaking program interface will be easy to perceive inexperienced users. Software is not installed in the system, which allows you to use it as a portable version.

So, the software in question makes it possible to effectively digitize photos for storing on PC or change color tone, and the text scan will allow it from paper to electronic format. Thus, software products will be useful in a variety of working moments.