Converting a jpeg to a Word file

[torres-no-tan-magnifico]

I do not have a document scanner for my PC and recently needed some documents to be converted digitally. I photographed the documents using a digital camera and then uploaded the jpeg images to my HDD. So far, so good!

I then converted the jpegs to PDF (using the excellent i2pdf) and then also used Some PDF to Word Converter.

I thought that once the PDF had been converted to a Word doc I would be able to edit the text as necessary but I cannot do this as any word processor just sees the files as a picture file.

Does anyone know of a solution?

Thanks in advance.

[kendall.a]

I believe that you need an OCR program. OCR programs can reasonably well pick out characters/letters from a scanned image. However, I doubt that it will work with an actual picture from a camera. The only success I've had with OCR software is when it was bundled with a scanner. But, you could try one out and see how it works.

OCR=Optical Character Recognition

[kendall.a]

Hey, try these links:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...ne-service.htm

http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...cr-service.htm

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...r-software.htm

[torres-no-tan-magnifico]

@kendall,

I tried Free OCR which worked well on one doc but not so well on another. Have a few more docs to convert, but anyway thanks for pointing me in the right direction!