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Can I scan an existing paper form into excel
I have 3 accounting forms that I fill in by hand that would work great in a
workbook but I need to use the existing forms. Can I scan them into Excel and create them as a new template? |
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Can I scan an existing paper form into excel
If your scanner has a good OCR application with it you can get most forms
scanned. I have had some success scanning as "Text and Image" which saves as an *.RTF file which you open in Word. Then you can copy it to an Excel worksheet. Usually some corrections to make but overall, not bad. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:13:00 -0800, accounting wrote: I have 3 accounting forms that I fill in by hand that would work great in a workbook but I need to use the existing forms. Can I scan them into Excel and create them as a new template? |
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Can I scan an existing paper form into excel
OCR meaning optical character recognition. If your scanner doesn't have such
software there is lots of third-party software out the http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=OCR+software Dave -- Brevity is the soul of wit. "Gord Dibben" wrote: If your scanner has a good OCR application with it you can get most forms scanned. I have had some success scanning as "Text and Image" which saves as an *.RTF file which you open in Word. Then you can copy it to an Excel worksheet. Usually some corrections to make but overall, not bad. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:13:00 -0800, accounting wrote: I have 3 accounting forms that I fill in by hand that would work great in a workbook but I need to use the existing forms. Can I scan them into Excel and create them as a new template? |
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Can I scan an existing paper form into excel
Thank you I will try it. I appreciate the post.
"Gord Dibben" wrote: If your scanner has a good OCR application with it you can get most forms scanned. I have had some success scanning as "Text and Image" which saves as an *.RTF file which you open in Word. Then you can copy it to an Excel worksheet. Usually some corrections to make but overall, not bad. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:13:00 -0800, accounting wrote: I have 3 accounting forms that I fill in by hand that would work great in a workbook but I need to use the existing forms. Can I scan them into Excel and create them as a new template? |
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