John Swiman asks:
I sometimes get documents that are scanned and sent to me as a jpeg. How can I convert them to word documents and or PDF files for formal presentation?
Is there any conversion programs that can do this, either free or paid?
I am using Windows XP along with Microsoft Office 2007.
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System: Windows
Tagged: .pdf, convert, convert to document, convert to pdf, microsoft word
System: Windows
Tagged: .pdf, convert, convert to document, convert to pdf, microsoft word
16 Answers -
Prem Kumar S
August 18, 2012You can use the free online tool OnlineOCR.net to o this……..which server the best for free
Bruce Epper
August 18, 2012First use Format Factory to convert the JPG file to a TIFF file, the use Microsoft Document Imaging (part of Office 2007) for OCR. From here you can access it in Word and save it as a DOC or PDF file (if you have the free Save as XPS or PDF extension installed). Depending on the quality of the original JPEG, your results may need to be edited again to correct scanning errors.
Vipul Jain
August 18, 2012I use ABBYY Finereader.
Converts Image to PDF, Word, vice versa and many more interchangeable formats..
Alex
August 18, 2012For example online Finereader
http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/en
GrrGrrr
August 18, 2012as I understood you require to print all those scanned images to PDF or word. If it is to PDF use can install PDFCreator and then print the images as a PDF file.
Irshaad Abdool
August 18, 2012use an OCR (optical character reader) software – http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-free-ocr-software-tools-to-convert-your-images-into-text-nb/ –
then to convert into PDF, use DoPDF (www.dopdf.com)
Reý Aetar
August 21, 2012just upload it to google docs then file>import to google docs then a new window will open allowing you to edit the doc ,then just click file again and download as pdf document
Bhupinder Dhanda
August 21, 2012copy this link – http://www.convert-jpg-to-pdf.net/ and paste in your web browser.
Edgar Meixueiro
August 23, 2012You can install PDF creator, which creates a virtual printer in your system which prints any file to pdf format. Try that.
Ben Mordecai
August 25, 2012You can always print them to PDF using CutePDF
Lambvolution
August 27, 2012you can use Boxsoft Free OCR to convert it
http://www.boxoft.com/free-ocr/
filepuma
August 27, 2012pdfCreator is a good choice. With this mini-tool, you can create PDF document easier and faster. Download pdfCreator from: http://www.filepuma.com/download/pdfcreator_1.4.3-1227/
Amit Sinha
September 1, 2012yes use OCR software try searching on Google
Saina Nehwal
September 21, 2012You can convert image or word file to pdf directly but for this you have to use diffrent tools, for image to pdf conversion you can use Kernel for image to pdf software from http://www.imagetopdfconversion.com and for word to pdf go for Kernel for word to pdf software, you can get more information from http://www.wordtopdfconverterfree.com
Sashi Peiris
December 8, 2012the simple way is to insert the picture in to a word document and make the picture as large as you can so that it fits on to the page. The you can save the file as a word of pdf.
Paul Pruitt
December 10, 2012IrfanView offers a pretty flexible printing interface for JPG files. If you have PDF Creator, you can print to PDF that way. IrfanView also has a free add-in for OCR that is pretty decent, so if you actually need to convert the images into text you can past into word or open as a text file in Word, you can do that. It’s here.
Finally a decent batch freeware batch OCR is NIH’s (yes, the government National Institute of Health) MyMoprh. It’s here: http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/mymorph.htm.
There are probably better batch OCR freeware. Working with MS Office 2007 – 2013 OneNote app might be usable too. Its the replacement to the Document Imaging app of older versions of MS Office.