Editing Scanned Documents

[susanxx]

I have scanned some documents and want to edit them down to be more precise with the info contained within them. I am using windows 7 and am at a loss as to how I can edit them to achieve what I want.
I would also like to remove some games programs that came pre installed when I bought my laptop but can't understand how to do this either. Any help please. Thanks

[Grimaldi]

For your first query , you need an OCR (optical character reader) - I use Omni page when I had Windows, and this did the translation to user-friendly word docs at the scan point, but could also be used on existing documents.

[SpikeyBush]

Proof read very carefully any result from OCR, it is prone to errors. That is why I keep getting speeding tickets meant for someone driving a Ford Focus in Swords. I don't drive a Focus and haven't been in Swords for about 7 years.

[Buenchico]

To extract the text from a scanned document you need to feed the output from your scanner into an OCR (= Optical Character Recognition) program.

To keep the document largely as it is, but change some of the text within it, you need to think of the scan as a photograph and edit it with an image-manipulation program.

My posts on this thread provide further information:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1354477.html

To uninstall a program, follow these instructions:
http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Programs-%28Windows-7%29

[susanxx]

thanks for the help, thought it was more straightforward to do. With regards to unistall, it looks like I'll have to go down the malware route as I have tried to uninstall but the prog does not appear there.