Scanner

[chem1]

I want my program to read text that has been obtained from a scanner.i-e I want it to make the scanned text 'editable'
How do I proceed??????

[Matthias S]

What you are looking for is a proggy that does OCR (optical character recognition). You need such proggy (as an ocx) and included it into your project. You then feed the control with a picture (usually tif) and an output file (usually txt) and let it do it's work.

I don't know of any shareware or cheap OCR software, here in this company we only use high-end products.

I hope thats at least a start.

Best wishes,

Matthias Steinbart