What type of program

[handrawn]

many business oriented scanners come with OCR as a bundled option -this, as gary says, usually enables you to scan text to an editable PDF, though it has to be said it is not automatically the case that all scanned PDFs will be editable

my brother scanner comes with PaperPort OCR, in the past I have used Abbyy Fine Reader

both ok, given the limitations of the process

[Gypsyjoe]

Thank you for your replies, OCR is what I was looking for! As soon as I looked at the thread I knew that was it and went out and downloaded a program. It works excellent thank you everyone for the quick response as it has already got the project started and will save me a whole lot of typing.

[gwpriester]

it has already got the project started and will save me a whole lot of typing.

But don't forget to proofread carefully. OCR scans depending on how clear the text is can make mistakes.

[handrawn]

absolutely

never have I ever had one [of any length] 100% correct

[Egg Bramhill]

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