Documents with "ABBYY" edit
"ABBYY FineReader" is a special program for text recognition. The full version costs about 130 Euro. A trial version for 30 days, but there is a free-of-charge.
- Open the "ABBYY FineReader".
- Click on the button "Open" and select your scanned document.
- The document will be automatically read in, and in the right window "translated".
- After the procedure, you can repair manually for any mistakes.
- Finally, click on the "Save" button. By default, the document is saved as a DOCX file. You can change the Format by clicking on the small arrow to the save button.
- Now open the saved document with Word and then edit it as desired.
- A purchase of the full version is worth it, if you need to run such applications on a regular basis. For unique applications, you can access to the test version. This is valid for 30 days and can handle a maximum of 100 documents.

Documents with "ABBYY" edit
Scanned documents, free of charge, edit: "Free OCR to Word"
"Free OCR to Word" is a free program. You don't pay attention, however, during Installation, that you agree to install additional programs.
- You can open "Free OCR to Word".
- Click on the "Open"button.
- Select the scanned document you want to convert.
- Then click on the magic wand icon.
- Your Text will now be displayed in the right window. There, you can make last minute Changes.
- Finally, click on "Save Text" and select the location.
- The file is saved as a. TXT file. You can open it with the Editor.
- Now you can highlight the Text in a Word document.

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